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A grandmother, mother and daughter come to live together in a country house where their lives are forever changed as these strong-willed women wrestle with various levels of grief, incredible love, difficult partings, new romances, newborns and gardening!

Synopsis

WAVES centres around three generations of wildly different, engaging women – a grandmother, mother and daughter – all living under the same roof in a country house.  The story unfolds in the back porch of this house and it is in this setting that these complicated women wrestle with various levels of grief, incredible love, difficult partings, new romances, newborns and gardening!

Rachel Godfrey lives in this house – built by her husband Paul who has gone mysteriously missing.   Enter into this setting, Rachel’s widowed mother, Nora Porter.  After suffering a minor stroke affecting Nora’s way of thinking, (but certainly not her speech), Rachel insists her mother move in with her.  Also living under this same roof, Hannah Godfrey, Rachel’s own daughter – a promising writer with a poetic voice.  She recently opened a successful coffee shop in town following a heartbreaking relationship that has left her alone and pregnant.

When Rachel decides to do something about Paul’s beloved garden that has gone unkempt and abandoned since his disappearance, she invites a stranger into her life – a gardener by the name of Simon Reeves.   Single, independent, with an easy-going, charming personality and a huge love of nature, Simon upends this household in unexpected and surprising ways.  A garden is planted.  Flowers bloom.   Hope springs internal.  And life in this country house is forever changed.

Each of these women’s lives are at an inflection point when the play opens and their stories weave through a myriad of happy/painful memories.   There is much laughter laced in wicked wit and bittersweet sentiment as WAVES unfolds around these strong-willed women with contradictory shades.