The thorny issue of family relationships comes under scrutiny in Daddy’s Girls at the OFS Arts Centre on Tuesday and Wednesday. Written by local author and musician Nia Williams (right), this 90-minute musical focuses on three half-sisters who gather at their late father’s cottage to sort through his belongings — and find that each has very different memories of a man that none of them really knew.

“He’s not been a particularly attentive father,” Nia explains. “He’s an absent in the show, but he’s also been an absent in their lives. The idea of three very different characters with different memories of this one man interested me, so in the course of the musical we find out who he was to each of the women. One remembers him as a romantic, one remembers him as a bit of a rogue and one has fallen out with him altogether. The whole musical is the course of one day, where they discuss their memories of their father and we find out their relationship with each other as well.”

As with all good stories, there’s an added bit of intrigue — the favourite daughter has been promised a final reward, and each of them believes herself to be that favoured one.

“There’s a lot of competition going on as to who they think he loved most,” says Nia. “And in the course of looking for this last reward, they reassess their memories of him and their own lives, and start to pull together. So by the end of it, the relationships have changed altogether. There’s also a twist, but I won’t give too much away about that!”

The daughters will be played by Rebecca Martin, Sarah Leatherbarrow and Jane Hainsworth, with Nia as accompanist. More information at www.niawilliams.com Box office: 01865 305305 or visit http://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/ticketsoxford