Caravan

Animal-42

“Dee’s performance can be hideously funny. Wilks nearly reprises her powerful role in Patricia Cornelius’ Shit. She’s a rough-as-guts Donna as magnetic in moments of bitterness and fury as she is in moments of clowning.”
The Age

Animal-119

“With luck, Wilks, Dee and co will create a prequel. The events of 1980, the year of Donna’s birth, are begging to be dramatised. They are entrails in need of dissection.”
The Australian

Animal-33

“A team of Melbourne’s most powerful theatre makers unite for a darkly comic double-hander. It’s no small feat to create a piece of work that is harsh and full of pain, and yet, deeply empathic. Like Shit and Animal, Caravan feels raw, bold and vital.”
★★★★
TimeOut

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For years a mother and her daughter have lived together in a dilapidated caravan full of faded dreams. They have nowhere else to go. While Judy, big, bloated and perennially unwell, holds court from the caravan’s double bed, Donna cooks liver, drinks from a goon sack and dreams of a Tinder date to take her away.

Over the course of one evening, while Donna’s phone pings and Judy sucks oxygen from her mask, they bicker and make up, scream and threaten violence and dream of better things.

But each knows the other won’t leave: they’re stuck, and will be till the end.

Caravan is bitter and hilarious, tender and toxic: a darkly comic look at life on the margins and the universal need for love.

Seasons

  • Melbourne International Festival of the Arts 2017

Credits

  • Susie Dee – Performer & Co-creator
  • Nicci Wilks – Performer & Co-creator
  • Co-directed by Nicci Wilks & Susie Dee
  • Writers – Angus Cerini, Patricia Cornelius, Wayne Macauley, Melissa reeves
  • Lighting Design – Andy Turner
  • Sound Design – Ian Moorhead
  • Set Design – Marg Horwell