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‘

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