Event:
"The Memory of Water" one-weekend show on the Main Stage

Guest Director, Beth Harper

NOTE: Only One Weekend of Performances

Fir Acres Theatre Main Stage

Thursday, March 13, 7:30pm

Friday, March 14, 7:30pm

Saturday Matinee, March 15, 2:00pm

Saturday, March 15, 7:30pm

Sunday, March 16, 7:30pm

"The Memory of Water" is a play about three sisters who return home to the north of England for their mother's funeral. The ebb and flow of emotion, and the ever-changing alliances between these sisters as they try to come to terms with each other and their loss is a story as old as life itself. As the title indicates, the play deals with the realm of memory. Each sister holds distinct memories of their collective childhoods, each has her own perspective and interpretation or what these memories mean. At times, the boundaries between individual memories and experiences blur and family stories, told many times over, become the property of everyone, shaped and embellished until the story actually replaces the memory.

In an interview, the author Shelagh Stephenson, said she initially started to write the play about a birthday party. During the course of the play's development, she lost her own mother, and the subject shifted from one family ceremony to another. Yet the idea of a family and its stories, shaped by the traditions of such ceremonies, bound together by laughter and tears is still at the heart of the ultimately joyous and life-affirming play.

Box Office opens Monday, March 10, 1pm.

Box Office Hours: 1-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, and one hour before performances.

Phone reservations for non L&C community only: 503-768-7495