Yes, We’re Related – Greenside @ Riddles Court
Grief does crazy things to people and Yes, We’re Related explores the different reactions of two sisters to the loss of their mother on the first-year anniversary of her death.
The play starts with the three actors emerging from the audience and raving whilst in squirrel masks. It was an entertaining, albeit odd, start to the show which I
Sara wakes from sleeping in a tent in the siblings’ mother’s old house before her serious sister, Saskia, and her dopey boyfriend, Mark, arrive to help set up the party Saskia has organised to mark the first death anniversary.
When questioned about the noise coming from her bedroom, Sara confesses that there is a squirrel living in there. The play suggests that the squirrel is a metaphor for their dead mum as Sara discusses not wanting to let...