The pacing and slow reveals that build throughout RETURN TO MOTHER'S NEST make this play deeply engaging and thrilling. Samantha Marchant uses dialogue with a sharpness that truly cuts deep between mother and daughter. There's an amazing sense of urgency and dread in this play, building toward an ending that would be amazing to watch and hear on stage with both voice and sound effects. A thriller indeed!

A disturbing dark comic look at Mothers, daughters and the ties that bind. Samantha Marchant's creepy short play slowly increases the dread factor while the dialogue pace seems to increase until that final nightmarish end. This would be great to see alongside a bunch of other horror-themed plays.

RETURN TO MOTHER’S NEST is eerie, mysterious, and trenchant. I read it once, mulled it over and read it a second time, and I’m still letting its words creep around in my mind. If you love plays that explore Mother’s dark side (and I do) this is the short play for you. I admire the tug-of-war between familiar mother-daughter talk and something truly bizarre going on. Fine work that would be so much fun to see staged.