Static

Performer Ruby is cleaning out her dad’s static caravan following his death, and the decisions of what to keep and what to chuck are triggers for memories – some good, some bad. “…entertaining the bloody kids while their parents were off playing bingo or getting drunk.” “Everyone! Get on this…she got down to the last ten for the Spice Girls.” The belongings of the colourful characters from her days working in a holiday camp on the ‘Welsh Riviera’, and the shadows cast by Eddie, the ‘touchy-feely’ magician to whom she was the 18-year-old assistant, are her companions in a six-berth caravan as she roots through her belongings and her past. Moving and funny, peppered with Elaine’s Liverpudlian wit, Static explores a volatile childhood, the shadier side of the ‘business called show’ and its disappointments, classism, ableism, and always being the outsider.