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Dateline: 29th May, 2009
Touring the Caravan On the second anniversary of the 2007 UK floods that left thousands of people homeless, caused thirteen deaths and approximately £2 billion of damage, documentary theatre piece The Caravan presents fascinating memories and moving accounts from those people worst affected, inviting an audience of eight to step inside a small caravan and hear interviews re-enacted, word for word, alongside visual and audio footage. In the ensuing chaos of the wettest summer on record fifty thousand people were forced to live in caravans and two thousand households remained in them one year on. Two years later one hundred people are still there and in Hull alone, 300 people are now displaced as a consequence of the floods. Look Left Look Right, which created the piece, is a documentary-theatre company which specialises in making theatre and documentaries that examine how people are affected on an everyday basis by big national and international events. Aiming for a neutral, transparent medium their work prioritises people’s words and language. The ethos of the company is to look left, look right: always trying to listen to as many different viewpoints as possible. Having already won a Fringe First in Edinburgh last year and selling out at Royal Court, where the caravan was parked in the middle of Sloane Square, the production will tour to some of the areas worst affected, where people originally interviewed for the piece still live. Tour Details
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