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.

Cover photo credit – 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.

‘Entertaining and moving theatre, dredged from the humour and horror of marginalised lives.’ Cameron Woodhead, The Age.