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Promo images for my own Arts Council Funded production 'Suzy Homemaker.' I do own these costumes and wigs!

This character is Suzy. A 1950’s housewife who is quite strange, but looks like the “perfect wife” to the outside world. She is neat, prim, and makes an excellent Victoria sponge, but with a madness to her that you can’t help but both be disturbed by and pity.

Suzy Homemaker was a line of miniature functional toy household appliances produced by Topper Toys, and launched in 1966, teaching girls how to be the perfect housewife.

In this performance we see women throughout history trapped in a role they did not ask for, and had no choice in. Following the Suffragette movement, before police quash the revolution; a double life; and domestic bliss turned nightmare, Suzy Homemaker invites you to be the perfect housewife, just like your mother.

Photo by Elly Welford

Suzy Homemaker is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.