This devised performance by Penny Drop Productions navigates the realities of ageing, independence, and perceptions of women alone… but we promise it’s fun! With dancing, driving lessons and dinner plates, Penny Drop can’t wait to meet you.

Three young girls. Three young women? Three young LADIES are trying to navigate the working world,  revelling in the apparent confidence that they’ve been taught to display by LinkedIn profiles, career advisors and their mums. This performance is interrupted by their next door neighbour – a much older lady, who confuses them with her contentedness and solitary, gentle life. When presented with a confusing, spiky gift they’re forced to address the fact that they don’t actually know what to do next. 

This is a show that uses clowning, choreography and off-the-wall dialogue to capture that feeling of ‘faking it til you make it’. It explores how stepping into the corporate world as a young woman often requires a carefully crafted performance. 

Lady’s Fingers was initially created in Spring 2024, and, following a sold out run at the Alma Tavern theatre in Bristol in May of 2024, returns with a developed and expanded work to share with new audiences in 2025.

Penny Drop Productions is a women-led theatre company that explores the fun and the uncanny through devised work. Coming together at the beginning of 2024, Penny Drop was founded by early career theatre makers based across London, Bristol and Birmingham. Lady’s Fingers’ run in Bristol in May 2024 was the company’s inaugural show and met with an extremely positive reception. Penny Drop are committed to celebrating the humanness behind theatre making in both work and image, creating safe spaces for artists and audience members to experiment. Find them on Instagram. 

Brave Mirror Productions was founded in Bristol in 2019 and has since made work in both Bristol and London and continues to run workshops with young people and community groups across the UK. Their work centres collaboration, emerging artist development, and sustainability, with a commitment to working to the intermediate pathway of the Theatre Green Book across all projects. Most recently Brave Mirror created ‘Attention Span’ at this year’s Camden Fringe, a show that was shortlisted as a finalist for the Comedy category of London Pub Theatre’s Standing Ovation Award.