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The Memory Of Water
- Tour & Scottish Premiere .
The play recieved its world
Playwright - Shelagh Stephenson.
Director - Muriel Romanes.
Designer - Isla Shaw.
Lighting Designer - Natasha Chivers.
Sound Designer & Composer - Hilary Brooks.
Company - Stellar Quines
Theatre Company in Co-production with Byre Theatre St Andrews and The
Tron Theatre Glasgow.
Cast - here .
2003 Tour Dates and Times - here . Opens at
The Byre St Andrews goes to Kilkenny Fesitval in August 2004.
Seen to review at The Byre St Andrews on 17 April 2004.
Run Time - 2 hours 30 mins including 15 mins interval.
Reviewer - Thelma Good.
Pain and joy of being related.
The Memory of Water - Stellar Quines Production.
Jenifer Black - Theresa and Molly Innes - Catherine.
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Death brings the best and worse out of relatives. Agony of loss, a chance
to even up scores, secrets revealed and sometimes an opportunity to rebond,
to start afresh as the family of the deceased moves towards a funeral
- it all happens in The Memory of Water. Take a hanky, but be prepared
also to laugh.
Director Muriel Romanes has gathered together a cracking cast. It's hard
to believe they aren't related as the eldest sister always coping but
into new therapies Theresa, played by Jennifer Black, and the youngest
never got it together yet Catherine, Molly Innes, are thrown into
even sharper relief by the never seeming to put a foot wrong Mary, Alexandra
Mathie.
Mary, the most undipsy sister, is the one her newly dead mother visits.
Mary accepts her coming, as grieving people often do, never questioning
why her mother's spirit is drawn to speak to her. Mary Keegan is
the mother looking like a glamorous socialite about to go out for her
weekly dance with their Dad. Men are not so much sidelined in this play,
more out maneuvered. Theresa is married to patient but not a doormat Frank,
Crawford Logan in fine trig while Mary has a married lover Mike, played
with noticeable masculine emotion by Simon Coury.
The family home set suggests both the house's past with much strewn toys
and clutter, the convolutions of the brain where memory is eluted into
myth and the cliff erosion the old home is threatened by. The whole is
lit in underwater green/blue light while at times we hear the sea just
a few yards from the window. There is one confusing touch - the model
house at the back of the set has lit windows which go on and off and then
on and off again. Why I could not fathom, as all my theories bit the dust
it became an irritating distraction.
It's a richly textured play in a production full of the pain and joy of
being related, one to warm the heart and release tears.
© Thelma Good 16 April 2004. - Published on EdinburghGuide.com
EdinburghGuide reviews of Stellar Quines Theatre Co's productions Sweet
Fanny Adams in Eden, and Wit.
Cast: Mary - Alexandra Mathie, Vi - Mary Keegan,
Theresa - Jennifer Black, Catherine - Molly Innes, Mike - Simon Coury
and Frank - Crawford Logan.
2004 Tour Details of Stellar Quines's production
of The Memory Of Water.
Tour begins
15 April (preview) - 1 May Tues - Sat at 8pm Mats 21, 24, 28 April,
1 May, 2.30pm St. Andrews
Byre Theatre 01334 475000.
www.byretheatre.com
13 - 29 May at 8pm Mat 29 May, 2pm Glasgow Tron Theatre
0141 552 4267.
www.tron.co.uk
1 June st 7.30pm Musselburgh Brunton Theatre 0131 665
2240.
www.bruntontheatre.co.uk
2 June at 7.30pm Aberdeen Lemon Tree 01224 642230.
www.lemontree.org
4 June at 7.30pm Peebles Eastgate Theatre 01721 725777.
www.eastgatearts.com
5 June at 7.45pm Cumbernauld Theatre 01236 732887.
www.cumbernauldtheatre.co.uk
8 June at 8.00pm Wick Lyth Arts Center 01955 641270.
10 - 12 June at 7.30pm Mat 12 June at 2.30pm Edinburgh Traverse
Theatre 0131 228 1404.
www.traverse.co.uk
15 June at 8.00pm Plockton Village 01599 534702.
16 June at 8.00pm Aultbea Community Hall Tickets at Door
17 June at 8.00pm Ardross Community Hall 01349 880591.
18 June at 8.00pm Dunkeld Birnam Institute 01350 727674.
www.birnaminstitute.com
19 June at 7.30pm Dunfermline Carnegie Hall 01383 314000.
www.carnegiehall.co.uk
22 - 23 June at 7.00pm Edinburgh North Edinburgh Arts Center
0131 3152151.
www.northedinburgharts.co.uk
24 - 26 June at 7.45pm Matinee: 26 June at 2:30pm Dundee
Rep Theatre 01382 223530.
www.dundeerep.co.uk
Scottish Tour ends.
Then Irish première
with this production at Kilkenny Festival, Ireland after successful Scottish
première.
Preview 6th August at 8pm. at Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny Ireland
Festival Booking.
7 - 12 August at 8pm. at Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny Ireland
Festival Booking.
Theatre Editor, Thelma Good's e-mail is
thelma@edinburghguide.com
Although every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the
information presented in these pages, no responsibility can be accepted
for any errors or omissions.
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