Company re-inact floody hell of two years ago

Jun 12 2009 Huddersfield Daily Examiner

IT IS two years since flooding swept across the UK killing 13 people, leaving thousands of people homeless and causing £2bn damage.

On Monday, on the second anniversary of those floods, a piece of documentary theatre unfolds in Huddersfield in an attempt to give people a taste of what those disastrous days must have felt like for those caught up in the flooding.

Theatre company Look Left Look Right will be hooking up their caravan in the courtyard of the LBT for five nights beginning on Monday.

Just eight people will be invited to step inside the caravan where they will hear interviews with flood victims re-enacted, word for word by actors.

There will also be video and audio footage ensuring that visitors get a real taste of the chaos that ensured when 50,000 people were forced to live in caravans after the wettest summer on record.

Around 2,000 people still lived in those caravans a year after and now, two years almost to the date of the floods, there are still 100 people in caravans and unable to return home.

Look Left Look Right is a documentary theatre company set up by Ben Freedman and Mimi Poskitt.

They specialise in making theatre and documentaries on how people are affected on an everyday basis by big moments in national and international politics.

There are four performances on Monday night at 6.45pm, 7.30pm, 8.15pm and 9pm, from Tuesday to Friday at 6pm, 6.45pm, 7.30pm, 8.15pm and 9pm and on Saturday at 1.30pm, 2.15pm, 3pm, 6pm, 6.45pm and 7.30pm. Box office is on 01484 430528.