In the Lady Garden
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Presented by The Lady Gardeners, supported by Theatre Royal Plymouth & Pleasance
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Fringe Festival August 2024
Previews -Theatre Royal Plymouth - July 2024
Currently touring 2025/2026
Previews -Theatre Royal Plymouth - July 2024
Currently touring 2025/2026
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Production Photography: © Deborah Edgington
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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.
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.
About the play
Hilarious, bold and unfiltered, In the Lady Garden is a rebellious engaging new comedy-drama - funny, challenging and poignant.
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 they still have empowering stories worth telling.
Following sell-out runs, the play went on to receive rave reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year and was 1 of the 7 selected Edinburgh National Partnership shows being 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.
Age guidance: 16+ Content warning: strong language, loss of a child and some minor references to non-consensual sexual acts.
Hilarious, bold and unfiltered, In the Lady Garden is a rebellious engaging new comedy-drama - funny, challenging and poignant.
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 they still have empowering stories worth telling.
Following sell-out runs, the play went on to receive rave reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year and was 1 of the 7 selected Edinburgh National Partnership shows being 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.
Age guidance: 16+ Content warning: strong language, loss of a child and some minor references to non-consensual sexual acts.
Cast:
Julia Faulkner takes on the central role of Alice
and 21 other characters
Artistic Team:
Director: Deborah Edgington
Set design: Deborah Edgington
Lighting design: John Purkiss
Sound design: Tony Rogers
Sound Engineers: El Theodorou and Kev Amos
Assistant Producer (TRP): Jodie Paget
Special thank you to:
Sarah Andrews - Ursula VO
Kev Amos - Policeman VO
Cast:
Julia Faulkner takes on the central role of Alice
and 21 other characters
Artistic Team:
Director: Deborah Edgington
Set design: Deborah Edgington
Lighting design: John Purkiss
Sound design: Tony Rogers
Sound Engineers: El Theodorou and Kev Amos
Assistant Producer (TRP): Jodie Paget
Special thank you to:
Sarah Andrews - Ursula VO
Kev Amos - Policeman VO
