On a summer's night in the 1950s, a carnival rolls into town. They set up for business: Clown, his stripper girlfriend Cherry, the medicine man Father Bob, assorted "freaks", animals and Leo, the lovesick acrobat. It's a rowdy world - but life is sweet until Clown steals from his mate... Shots are fired. An arm is severed. Life runs on greed, sex, treachery and revenge. Their world darkens and splinters. Years pass, but on a stormy night another trail of blood leads to the Caravan. When puppets meet pulp fiction, all hell breaks loose!

In 2003 CARAVAN toured to the Dublin Fringe Festival, Cork, and the Fringe Club, Hong Kong. In 2004 it went to the Prague Fringe Festival, Jelenia Gora (Poland), Belfast, UNIDRAM in Potsdam, the Warsaw Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Canterbury Festival, Visions (Brighton), and London.

In 2003 Nancy Black received a Green Room Award for Outstanding Direction in Independent Theatre.

CREDITS:
DIRECTOR: NANCY BLACK WRITERS: NANCY BLACK & PAUL NEWCOMBE
DESIGNER & MAKER: PAUL NEWCOMBE DIRECTOR OF PUPPETRY: ROD PRIMROSE
PUPPETEERS: VANESSA ELLIS, RINSKE GINSBERG, ROD PRIMROSE, PAUL NEWCOMBE
2003-2004: KALKI HENENBERG, SARAH KRIEGLER, ROB PRIMROSE, JACOB WILLIAMS, MALCOLM MARTIN ORIGINAL MUSIC: BEN GRANT SOUND DESIGN: DAVID CORBET LIGHTING DESIGN: TOM HOWIE PRODUCER: KAY JAMIESON GRAPHIC DESIGN: SWEET DESIGN

The tours in 2003 and 2004 were supported by:
HAROLD MITCHELL FOUNDATION