If you think gin makes you sad let me introduce Libby Wood and Maeve Marsden.
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The delightfully entertaining pair tap into the long, often dark history of the maligned juniper-based spirit with Mother’s Ruin: A Cabaret about Gin which is playing at the Butter Factory Theatre, Gateway Village, until Saturday.
Accompanied by piano man Andrew Worboys, the pair sip, slurp, swig, spill and sing their way through the rise, fall and rise again of gin.
Mother’s Ruin is gin-fuelled grown-up fun, full of crowd interaction, but at the same garnished with tales of the plight of women across the centuries and mixed with a liberal dose of political messages.
“What we’ve done is researched true stories from the history of this drink that so many of us love but has also had a chequered past and maybe sometimes a negative reputation,” gin fan Marsden says.
“You’ve got all these stories that take us around the world and come together to make this funny, silly show about booze.”
Marsden and Wood deliver thoroughly entertaining adaptations of hit songs from some of the biggest names in music such as Amy Winehouse, Nina Simone, Martha Wainwright and The Pretenders.
Crowd favourites include the interactive Oom-pah-pah and Piano Man (both with gin references) and I’ve Drunk Every Gin as well as the intensely powerful Hymn To Her and Wainwright’s ode to women living with a dominating male.
Mother’s Ruin, part of HotHouse Theatre’s 2018 season, performs daily at the Butter Factory Theatre until Saturday, May 26,