In the Lady Garden’ is brought to you by The Lady Gardeners.
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?
Will Alice shake off the shackles of the patriarchy and live out the rest of her days with outrageous abandon?
Find out in this rip-roaring, moving comedy created by The Lady Gardeners: writer Babs Horton, director Deborah Edgington and actor, Julia Faulkner, who are the trailblazing trio of female theatre-makers in their 60s and 70s behind this award-winning show.
Following sell-out runs, the play went on to receive rave reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year and was one of the seven selected Edinburgh National Partnership shows supported by the Pleasance and Theatre Royal Plymouth. It was also shortlisted for the 2024 Popcorn Writing Award and was 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.
“Top-class... the writing is sharp and funny...cracking one-liners”4 rating
“very funny...brilliant one-liners...beautiful poetry and imagery...utter joy...skilfully directed”4 rating