Look Left Look Right is a documentary-theatre company established by Ben Freedman and Mimi Poskitt. The company specialises in making theatre and documentaries that examine how people are affected on an everyday basis by big national and international events. The ethos of the company is to look left, look right: always trying to listen to as many different viewpoints as possible.
They initially found success with Yesterday Was a Weird Day: Reflections on July 7th, developed in the four weeks following the 7/7 bombings in 2005 and premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in August that year.
Their last production, The Caravan, was a documentary theatre performance about the UK floods of summer 2007. It toured the UK and attracted wide critical acclaim, a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe 2008, and sell out runs at Edinburgh Fringe and London’s Royal Court Theatre, where the caravan was parked in the middle of Sloane Square.
Currently Look Left Look Right is presenting Counted? a documentary-play about British democracy, sheds light on why – in a world at war over democracy and in economic meltdown – so many people don’t vote.
The London run of the show, which is touring the country to unusual political spaces, will be performed right on Westminster’s doorstep. Staged in the magnificent former Debating Chamber at County Hall – where the walls echo with political history and windows look across the river to the Houses of Parliament – Counted? is a timely, entertaining insight into our forgotten day-to-day relationship with democracy.
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