In the Lady Garden

About this event

At 69, Alice wonders if she hadn’t been expelled from convent school and had sex with Keith from the sausage rolls section at the pie factory, what might her life have been like? Will she finally shake off the shackles of the patriarchy and live out the rest of her days with outrageous abandon? Funny, fearless and full of heart, In the Lady Garden is a rebellious new comedy created and presented by The Lady Gardeners : Writer, Babs Horton, Actor, Julia Faulkner and Director, Deborah Edgington Following sell-out runs, the play went on to receive rave reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as one of the seven selected Edinburgh National Partnership shows supported by the Pleasance and Theatre Royal Plymouth. Shortlisted for the 2024 Popcorn Writing Award, the play was also a runner-up for the Brighton Fringe Excellence Award. The play tackles subjects rarely discussed in theatre: what it was like growing up as a girl in the 50s and 60s; the menopause and the invisibility of older women and is a reminder that middle-aged women still have empowering stories worth telling. Join us in this rip-roaring and moving comedy.