Cast

Synopsis

Four older ladies, living together for reasons of economy and mutual support, find it difficult to live with dignity and comfort. An unexpected event opens up the possibility of improving their colourless lifestyle. All is going well until the arrival of a younger woman threatens their plans. And just who is Caramba? This black comedy may make you view differently any “little old ladies” you meet in the future.

Directors Notes

Four elderly ladles have been sharing their lives in Violet’s rented house, pooling their pension books and sharing chores. After a mugging Violet dies, but needing to hold on to her pension book (not to say the house’s rent book) Marge, Lottie and Doris omit to tell the authorities and leave Violet’s body peacefully in the cemetery, Life goes on! Marge begins another evening course, Doris shops – pocketing change for her secret tipples – and Lottie the writer pushes taste to the limit with her hard-boiled heroine, Vanda Lane. However, Violet’s grand daughter, Ronnie, arrives from Australia in search of her relative. When she guesses the story she joins the commune hoping to improve their standard of living by bumping off the other old ladies for their pension books. Fending off the suspicious Inspector Grubb, she almost succeeds in attracting shoplifter Rose to the co-operative. But Rose is more than a match for the others and Lottie’s crime novel, which has mirrored the events of the play throughout its macabre process, is completed by Rose in quite a different manner than Lottie had intended.