Bebe Cave: SWOON at Pleasance Dome

SWOON is a character comedy about beauty, obsession and the quiet horror of being looked at, drawing on the eerie world of the Pre Raphaelites, Victorian ideals of femininity and the cautionary tales girls are raised on. Bebe Cave builds a universe where women are rewarded for being still, silent and decorative, and punished the moment they show signs of life, using dark humour to explore why female weakness has always been rebranded as romantic. Moving between a cast of tragic muses, mythic girls who made one small mistake, and the women trying and failing to become them, the show leans into the absurd logic of Victorian London, art galleries and mental asylums. Cave is an actress and writer whose credits include the feature film Tale of Tales, ITV's Victoria, and HBO Max's Industry.