Kitchen Sink drama - that in essence is what Green Beans is with the kitchen table, where meals are served, hearts are poured out and pasts chewed over, standing squarely on the set as the main focus of this the second offering in the venue's home-grown February Drama Festival.

But Rosalind Wyllie's play brings a very modern slant to the kitchen sink genre.  It's quirky as it delves back and leaps forward through time and re-writes itself in the process through the perception of leading character Sarah (Victoria Elliot).

The writing is tight and sharp as it explores family relationships and the humour is pithy.

The author may have gained a Master of Arts in Creative Writing with Distinction from the University of Northumbria last year yet, this is her first full-length stage play.

It is also a first for Carol McGuigan as a director at The Customs House, though the writer and actress is no stranger to this stage.  She acquits herself admirably in the director's shoes, inspiring confidence and control in her three women/one man cast.

Both sisters (Samantha Phyllis Morris is Lucy) are credible and rounded in their roles and Micky Cochrane plays a good part as the Geordie psychology babbling Tom, but Jacqueline Phillips' strong and spiky mother, Rita, with her killer instinct was my favourite.

Nicola Marsden