After a sell-out tour of the UK, cabaret comedy duo Maeve Marsden and Libby Wood bring their delightful musical history of gin to Border audiences.
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Mother’s Ruin: A Cabaret About Gin is part of HotHouse Theatre’s 2018 season and opens on Monday, May 21, at the Butter Factory Theatre, Gateway Village.
The performance – with a twist – features music originally performed by Amy Winehouse, Nina Simone, Martha Wainwright, The Popes, The Pretenders and more in a raucous show that tells the tale of gin through stories and song.
Mother’s Ruin has been touring to full houses and critical acclaim, with sold out seasons at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, London Underbelly Festival, Sydney Festival, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Melbourne Cabaret Festival, Fringe World Festival Perth, Adelaide Fringe and Festival of Voices and more.
The show has just closed a successful United Kingdom tour throughout April and this week performed as part of the Unwrapped Festival at the Sydney Opera House.
HotHouse Theatre artistic director Lyn Wallis said the company’s Butter Factory Theatre will be transformed for the season.
For one week only the venue will be transformed by Public House into a pop-up gin joint: Molly Fink Bar.
“Mother’s Ruin at the Hume Bank Butter Factory Theatre will be a sultry, immersive cabaret experience,” Wallis said.
“It’s a gorgeous show, but we’re also going to have a lot of fun transforming the venue.”
Mother’s Ruin was created collaboratively by Marsden and Wood, who have worked together in the Lady Sings it Better show, and drew on research from gin blogger and enthusiast Elly Baxter.
Baxter runs gin appreciation events and coordinated The Gin Revival for Vivid Sydney 2015.
She also works with Sydney’s Belvoir Theatre.
Marsden is a writer, director, producer and performer who is influenced by a passion for cabaret and women, she conceived Lady Sings it Better in 2009 and started working on Mother’s Ruin with Wood several years ago.
Wood, a stage musical tragic, has performed with Lady Sings it Better for five years, touring Australia and performing regularly as an MC, singer and comedian in Sydney.
Joining Wood and Marsden on stage is award-winning musical director Jeremy Brennan, who helped write the show along with director Anthea Williams.
