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Winner of an Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2000 and voted the UK "Play of the Year", The Memory of Water is on at the Baxter Sanlam Studio Theatre until March 6. This hilariously funny, bitter-sweet comedy by one of Britain's hottest new playwrights Shelagh Stephenson is about three very different sisters reunited for their mother's funeral. During their unexpected reunion these estranged siblings bicker constantly over conflicting memories of their childhood and, in trying to come to terms with their loss, create some outrageously funny and deeply touching situations.

Teresa is the martyred caregiver, who resents her sisters for abandoning her with a woman in the throes of Alzheimer's. Mary is the classic overachiever in a crisis, who has reached the point where she's researching neural disorders during the funeral arrangements, and the prodigal daughter Catherine is a drugged-out, self-absorbed shop-aholic and motor-mouth, who is in fact a lonely child, slightly lost and desperate for affection.

The Memory of Water is about what "normal people do in abnormal situations." The way these highly dysfunctional siblings deal with the death of their mother, with whom none of them really got along, produces some uproariously funny and sometimes unsettling scenarios.

The play is directed and designed by Greg King and Peter Court. It features Liesl Coppin as Teresa, Clare Mortimer as Mary and Olivia Borgen plays Catherine - the three sisters (photo below). Vera Clare - Vi - is their mother who appears in Mary's dreams, revealing some dark secrets about their childhood.

The cast also includes Peter Court as Frank, Teresa's husband and Greg King is Mike, Mary's lover. Performances are Monday to Friday at 20:15 and Saturdays at 21:00.? Book at Computicket or at the Baxter, 685-7880

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