Open the playbill for The Memory of Water, currently being staged in the Spokane Civic Theatre's studio space, and you'll find something beyond the usual director's notes, sponsor ads and cast list: a ...

Shelagh Stephenson’s THE MEMORY OF WATER is a play of emotional complexity—a chamber piece centered on three sisters navigating the murky waters of grief, memory, and the lingering bruises of ...

THE MEMORY OF WATER will be presented for 13 performances spanning four weeks from January 15 through February 8 at Burbage Theatre Co’s Wendy Overly Studio Theatre. Jeff Church, Artistic Director, ...

In Shelagh Stephenson‘s funny and poignant play, three sisters, Teresa, Mary and Catherine return to the family home for their mother’s funeral. In her bedroom, surrounded by the odds and ends of ...

The Memory of Water at Bolton Octagon floods in like rising damp in a decaying childhood home. Familiar, slightly uncomfortable, and quietly revealing, the longer you sit with it. Shelagh Stephenson’s ...

Good grief . . . bad grief - is it possible we can put such bereavement issues into these very real categories?' ...

You’re never likely to laugh more at a funeral than you will at the Octagon’s latest production marking the 30th anniversary of Shelagh Stephenson’s award-winning black comedy The Memory of Water.

PAWTUCKET, R.I. — Playwrights from Sophocles (“Antigone”), to Shakespeare (“King Lear”), to Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (“Appropriate”) have long plucked the marred fruit from the ancestral tree to devise ...

Why’s that? Because it’s about death. Grown-up sisters Teresa, Mary and Catherine meet at their family’s clifftop bungalow on the north-east coast of England the day before the funeral of their mother ...

If it wasn’t so funny, I would have cringed watching this play about three sisters preparing to attend the funeral of their recently deceased mother. The Memory of Water at Shakespeare & Company ...

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