Beyond the Marigolds

Event Details

Daring, comic and moving, Beyond the Marigolds will take you on a journey through life's messy acts of meaning.

  • 01/01/2016 - 31/12/2016
7 women line up in long white cotton dresses, wearing little blue hats and holding parasols.
  • 7 women line up in long white cotton dresses, wearing little blue hats and holding parasols.
  • A group of women dressed in black raise their hands in the air in jubilation while confetti falls.
  • 2 women wearing comically large cowboy hats and trousers stand in front of a wall featuring projected words scribbled on.
  • 4 women in white crinoline skirts are visible through white gauze.
  • A woman in a red hat addresses the audience as two women in grey dresses wearing angel's halos stand by.
  • Women drinking water through tubes and wearing white tabards walk round in a circle.
  • Two women in grey dresses stand with their backs to the audience and look through white gauze where a woman in a white slip dress and blonde wig stands.

Event Info

Featuring movement, music and projections, the show reveals the rich emotional hinterland held in secret by older women. The company peel off those iconic rubber gloves to revisit times of love, intimacy and sheer boredom, and dredge the nooks and crannies of daily life and fantasy. 

‘It was like nothing else I have seen — thought-provoking, emotional and wonderful‘

‘So life and age enhancing‘

More Events

Four older women dance in a line, with their hands reaching over their heads. They wear colourful tops.
Performances

16/05/2026

Ebb and flow at Dover Fringe

Ebb and flow: the movement of life. An autobiographical exploration honouring/celebrating the hands we have held, the journeys we have made and the hurdles we overcome.  Exploring connection and how...
Find out more
Workshops

20/05/2026 - 19/08/2026

Moving Stories – with People United

In partnership between Moving Memory and People United, we bring Moving Stories – a series of free, creative workshops designed for older people. Come and share stories, move your body and...
Find out more
Six older women from Moving Memory’s core company wear white shirts and lean forward in a stylised running pose, lined up side by side.
Performances

17/06/2026

We’ll Take It From Here, Dear (Work In Progress)

We’ll Take It From Here, Dear is a striking new theatre piece that places older women’s bodies unapologetically front and centre. Created by our core company in collaboration with composer...
Find out more