Caravan sink drama.
"Imagine a holiday, not a million miles away from where your standing, not even across the channel on foreign soil. Imagine a holiday you never wanted to go on, with people you never wanted to be with. There people are your family. Imagine this holiday is in a small place, a caravan. Add some Booze, lots of Booze. Some violance and 2 children then imagine what could possible go wrong"
By Christopher Sims. Rosie Jones. Jo Bowis. Eden.
Music and sound by Ben and Max Ringham
Commissioned and supported by SHUNT
This show was worked on by the 4 of us in the company from an idea that instantly brought our characters out. We portray a typical working class british family during the 1960 on a typical british summer holiday.
This take us to a caravan park on a costal town. The portrait of what was easy to understand and improvise for the performance. The story follows the catastrophic murder of a violent farther by one of the children.
The content of this performance we wanted to keep absolutely serious yet still ditched from reality. This was exceptional successful with the addition of sound by Ben and Max Ringham. We had no interactive participation from the audience and kept the piece isolated to the characters within the show. This made it all the more disturbing.
A daughter experienced in acts a girl that age should not know takes a dominant rule over here younger brother and intimidates his passive manner while he holds his dolls for comfort.
A dad lost and void of any emotion except aggression anger and violence towards his family. He creates a catalyst that will kill him.
The relationships with in the family taught and torn and on the edge of mass break down.
A mother to emotionally disturbed and far to often drunk by mid day to perform successfully as a parent letting the kids act up and just the heavy hand of dad striking down.
A tortured woman in a relation ship of angry sex at a violent husband.
An uncle seeming somewhat over tactile to his niece and nephew.
Sally dominating Johnny and intimidating him following the behavior of there farther. How the acts of the parents fall down to there off spring.
Aunt Bessey to drunk to see any thing is wrong. the kids call her a slut bag after hearing it from there mum and seeing there dad spend to much private time with her.
This show is set completely in and around a caravan leaving them isolated from the out side world.
Some thing is going to go very wrong...
From reference and experience of "being British", this piece was exceptionally easy to conceive and as a group working on it came easy. The show was done completely unscripted and just from within our characters we performed. Like so many families the conversation was simple and uninteresting. Often rude and just intimidating.
The piece grew organically with out need to force a performance and became extreamily realistic in its drama.
When dad gets violent in the caravan with his sister and mum Johnny snaps in floods of tears and grabs the first blunt object near, a tin of mushy peas.
With several blows the abuse stops
and the remainder of the family pack a suite case, lock the caravan and leave as quick as possible.
Performed by
Christopher Sims
Rosie jones
Jo Bowis
Eden
Elizabeth Jee
Aflie Boyd
Hannah Nicholls
Sam Roberts
Music and sound by Ben and Max Ringham
supported by SHUNT
Show photography JP Catwright and Robert Lightfoot