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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GOOD grief . . . bad grief - is it possible we can put such bereavement issues into these very real categories? We all respond to the loss of loved ones in different ways, as human nature offers its ...