Today's post is about the known history of the Van. She was used to promote Punchdrunk's amazing immersive show The Drowned Man which I was lucky enough to experience more than 20 times, and has meant a huge amount to me over the past year. You can read the basics about the show on the Wikipedia page but there are a number of brilliant Tumblr and other pages out there where you can find out a lot more.
The Van was parked on the concourse at Paddington Station for a few days last December, and there's a great video on You Tube which I have utterly failed to embed in this post but you can watch here.
Thanks to various members of the Facebook spoiler group, especially Peter Williams and Isabella Van Braeckel (who made the van's numberplate, which I also have!), here is a random record of how it looked, and what happened inside.
The van still has a phone number on the window, scrawled in lipstick. Over the duration of the show, the message on the other end of the line changed. At the time the van was in the station, however, it sounded like this (thanks again to Peter!).
It even made the news. Caravan Times, London 24...
The clipboard on the door said...
"A bustling city station.
Crowds of passengers, tourists, commuters pass through the central concourse.
(Camera pans in)
Through the chaos, something captures the stranger's eye.
A film studio trailer lies in the middle of the station.
(Cut to close up)
They glimpse a clipboard hanging from the trailer and carefully read a page of script. It dawns on them this trailer may contain a secret waiting to be discovered.
They look through the window."
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