West End Players Guild Continues 100th Season with THE MEMORY OF WATER 2/4-13

The West End Players Guild's 100th season continues in February with Shelagh Stevenson's dark and hilarious The Memory of Water. Directed by Tom Kopp, the show features performances by Suki Peters, Leslie Wobbe and Belinda Quimby, with Meg Brinkley, Ben Ritchie and Chris "Mr." Jones in supporting roles.

Mary (Peters), Teresa (Wobbe) and Catherine (Quimby) are three sisters who have returned home to bury their mother, Vi (Brinkley). Mary is a doctor, growing a bit desperate in the fifth year of an affair with a married man, Mike (Ritchie). Teresa is a frustrated housewife and co-owner of a nutritional supplements business with her equally frustrated husband Frank (Jones). Catherine, the youngest sister, gets no respect from her older siblings and resents it, almost as much as she laments her inability to keep a man. Mike and Frank try to keep things on an even keel as the sisters continue to feud over just about anything that comes up. The dialogue is biting and wickedly funny as the sisters proceed to lay each other's secrets bare.

The Memory of Water was first performed in London in 1996 and in New York in 1998. The show won a Laurence Olivier award for best new comedy. WEPG's production of The Memory of Water will be presented Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons February 4-13 at the Union Avenue Christian Church, 733 Union Avenue. Tickets are $18 and may be purchased at the box office or online at www.WestEndPlayers.org.

WEPG's 100th season of theatre in the CentrAl West End concludes in April with the St. Louis premier of Kathryn Chetkovich's Acts of Love, directed by Robert Ashton.