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| | TheatreFIRST » The Memory of Water |
 | | One dead mother, three living daughters, and two hapless male companions wrangle with their expectations and disappointments as they try to untangle the knotty skein of memories, often wildly conflicting, that arise when they are brought together for a few bitterly cold days on the English coast. |
 | | The memories pile up here, a tapestry of varied stories about the same events — which sister was accidentally left behind at the beach, how one met her husband, what a father knew about a family scandal. |
 | | Memory is a small, contained story about a few people dealing with one death, presented with a minimum of frippery, whereas Pimpernel is a musical circus hurtling wildly through the French Revolution and dripping with elaborate costumes, schemes, and guillotines. |
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