
Katherine Ryan once said "Men are like dolphins – best enjoyed on holiday." But she has put those flirty days behind her now. In her new show Battleaxe she celebrates being a happily married mother enjoying domestic bliss. Some of the time at least.
This latest zesty bulletin from the life of Ryan starts with her offering caustic dispatches from the motherhood front line. Her oldest daughter is now a textbook teenager ruling the roost with a, "25-step skin care regime and zero empathy." Meanwhile her toddler son likes to wake her for a fight in the middle of the night. The doctor diagnosed him with "boy".