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Revision as of 19:04, 9 December 2023
The Memory of Water is a comedy by Shelagh Stephenson (1955-)[1].
Not to be confused with two unrelated Spanish films called La memoria del agua (1994[2] and 2015[3]).
Contents
The original text
A play about three sisters and their partners who gather at the home of their recently dead mother and revisit the past in poignant and often hilarious ways.
The play was first staged at Hampstead Theatre in 1996, and going on to win the 2000 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy.
Translations and adaptations
The author adapted the play for the 2002 film, Before You Go, directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring, Julie Walters, John Hannah, and Joanne Whalley.[4]
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Memory_of_Water
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelagh_Stephenson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_of_Water_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Memory_of_Water_(film)
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