CARAVAN

It was also the reason I called you National Velvet. Or would’ve called you that, but everyone said it was a crap idea, pretentious, so I didn’t. And I’m glad I didn’t cause it wouldn’t have suited you, would it. You’re not a velvet. You’re no way a velvet. You’re more like a cotton gingham, or a sensible, quick drying man-made fabric like Terylene.

Caravan was performed by Nicci Wilks and Susie Dee. It was co-written by Angus Cerini, Patricia Cornelius, Wayne Macauley and Melissa Reeves, from an original idea by Nicci Wilks. It explores the hilarious, toxic relationship of a mother and daughter, as the mother Judy, is dying, and Donna feels her life slipping from her grasp. Each writer created their work through a poetic bodily conceit – heart, brain, lungs, liver. Caravan is a wild funny dark poetic show.

Susie Dee as Judy in Caravan. Photo Tim Grey.

“The nuance and credibility with which Dee and Wilks conjure this mother-daughter dynamic, with its teeming quirks and forensically observed details, is thoroughly entertaining.”  Maxim Boon, The Music.