Tears & Laughter; Grief and Hilarity Collide As Sisters Gather at Mum's Funeral Wake
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SOMEONE dies, you drink whisky. It's normal, it's a sedative, it's what normal people do at abnormal times. What do people usually talk about when their mother has just died?"
These are the words from Memory of Water which centres on the recollections of three sisters during their mother's funeral wake, which may not sound the most entertaining of subjects.See the full content of this document
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Tears & Laughter; Grief and Hilarity Collide As Sisters Gather at Mum's Funeral Wake
But Shelagh Stephenson's play, which was made into the 2001 film Before You Go starring Julie Walters, is described as a comedy, and "affectionate, sharp and brilliantly, blackly funny".
The sisters meet on the eve of their mother's funeral. Together they rummage th...See the full content of this document
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