Caravan

Production still for "Caravan". Nicci Wilks as Donna. Photographer: Tim Grey

Caravan

05 October 2017 – 22 October 2017 Forecourt, The Malthouse

Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Festival,

Theatre Co-Production Special Event

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 cask wine and dreams of a Tinder date to take her away. But each knows the other won’t leave: they’re stuck, and will be till the end. 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.

 

"NICCI WILKS AND SUSIE DEE HAVE CREATED A PAIR OF TRAGICOMIC CLOWNS TO RIVAL THE GREATEST"
— The Australian
"THE PLAY IS A UNIQUE TWO-HANDER, WHICH PUTS THE LIVES OF MARGINALISED WOMEN AT THE CENTRE OF DRAMATIC ACTION"
— The Conversation
Production still for "Caravan". Susie Dee as Judy. Photographer: Tim Grey
Production still for "Caravan". Nicci Wilks as Donna. Photographer: Tim Grey
Production still for "Caravan". L-R: Nicci Wilks as Donna, Susie Dee as Judy. Photographer: Tim Grey
Production still for "Caravan". L-R: Nicci Wilks as Donna, Susie Dee as Judy. Photographer: Tim Grey
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Production still for "Caravan". Susie Dee as Judy. Photographer: Tim Grey

Production still for "Caravan". Nicci Wilks as Donna. Photographer: Tim Grey

Production still for "Caravan". L-R: Nicci Wilks as Donna, Susie Dee as Judy. Photographer: Tim Grey

Production still for "Caravan". L-R: Nicci Wilks as Donna, Susie Dee as Judy. Photographer: Tim Grey

Cast

Creatives

Acknowledgements

Malthouse Theatre and Melbourne International Arts Festival co-present Caravan.

Production Program