CARAVAN OF LIES
Directed by Charlotte
Vincent
Set Designed by Richard
Lowdon
Soundtrack John
Avery
Lighting Design Richie Orr
Devised and Performed by TC Howard,
Peter Shenton, Iona Kewney, Stewart Lodge (reworked with Aurora
Lubos in Kewney's role in 2001)
Caravan of Lies is a lamentation for bodies that could once do extraordinary things, a sharp look at people making a spectacle of themselves. Set in an old style circus ring, with grubby sawdust and low gas lighting, Caravan of Lies weaves together three solos, compared by a clown who has seen better days. Caravan of Lies is a show about flying imaginations and backstage bickering, a tale of spinning and soaring, rapturous applause, glittering costumes and death defying deeds. Dressing gowns, cigarettes and multiple injuries. Ridicule and mistrust. Illness, exhaustion and clapped out dreams. Hurtling towards a breathtaking and chaotic finale, the work becomes a freak show of fear and vulnerability.
Roll up, roll up, its time to get brutal and eloquent with the truth.
Caravan of Lies was commissioned by Yorkshire Dance and Arnolfini Live, supported by Swindon Dance, Green Room, Danceworks UK, and Tramway, and funded by Sheffield City Arts, Yorkshire Arts and the Arts Council of England.
'Painfully moving and compelling. It's not often you find dance theatre
that has such energy, emotions and interwoven layers of well-structured
meaning and imagery, but Charlotte Vincent and her outstanding company really
excel in getting under the skin of personal dilemmas that we can all recognise.'
The Herald, Glasgow (click
for full review) (240Kb)
'This show matters and pushes dance forward as it does so' The Stage
