The Argus: fringe_2011_logo_red_thumb This was an unlikely tale featuring one sister’s harsh domination of the other, the calculated murder of an innocent and a mother left to rot in the garden shed for six years.

There was the odd amusing moment - Emily’s secret confidences in her goldfish – and the characters were performed well enough by the three-strong troupe, but the production did not live up to its promotion of “tragedy, comedy and dark twists”. It was flawed in more ways than one, adding up to an occasion that was silly and lacked credibility.

Sister Charlotte wore an Edwardian servant’s outfit: long black dress, white apron and headband, whilst Emily, apparently not having left the house or had company for six years, willingly opened the door to a male stranger and let him in while wearing only her underwear - an odd combination of “old-fashioned” frilly knickers and washed-out cotton bra!

The garden gate which disturbed Charlotte’s brave face on things as it knocked the wall in the wind turned out to be the door to the shed in which mum was imprisoned - but did not escape from.

Unclear of the ending, applause came early, and none of the cast took a bow, whilst the title remained oddly obscure.