Huddersfield LBT show on TV's Newsnight

Jun 18 2009 Huddersfield Daily Examiner

SHE’S more used to interrogating cabinet ministers.

But last night the BBC’s Kirsty Wark was in Huddersfield to see a play – with a caravan as a stage.

The Newsnight presenter watched a performance of the play Caravan in the courtyard of the Lawrence Batley Theatre.

The production by theatre company Look Left Look Right deals with the aftermath of the floods which hit Yorkshire two years ago forcing thousands of people to live in temporary homes.

The play will be discussed on Newsnight Review tomorrow night by Kirsty and a panel of experts.

She said: “On this week’s programme we’re looking at the theme of migration and how it’s expressed by all sorts of displaced people. It’s not just about immigration, it’s about migration within communities.

“This play looks at what happened in the floods when people were forced to migrate from their normal comfort zones.”

Kirsty was joined last night by Newsnight Review panellist Marina Lewycka, who wrote the award-winning A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.

Look Left Look Right are putting on several performances of Caravan each night this week – as only eight people can watch at one time.

But Kirsty said she had seen plays performed in similarly tight surroundings before.

She said: “I’ve seen things at the Edinburgh Festival in even smaller venues, I saw a play in the back of a van once.”