The Caravan »
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh 4th-25th August 2008
∗∗∗∗ The Scotsman ∗∗∗∗ Time Out ∗∗∗∗ British Theatre Guide
Look Left Look Right's last Edinburgh Fringe show 'Yesterday Was a Weird Day: Reflections on July 7th 2005" received great reviews and transferred to the Battersea Arts Centre in London where the run once again sold out. Now the company return to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival having developed their powerful documentary-theatre style with their new piece The Caravan.
In this production the audience are placed at the heart of the action. Last summer was the wettest on record with 48,000 homes flooded. One year on and 2,200 households are still living in caravans. The company's intense and at times humorous half hour piece puts both performers and audience in a 20-foot caravan and gives an insight into how people cope in a crisis.
Directors Mimi Poskitt and Ben Freedman:
With The Caravan the venue is integral to the piece, a normal theatre just wouldn't work. The audience are sitting with the performers, maybe only a foot apart, having tea with them, being asked to make space, or budge up. It's a very real experience, and as we're using interviews from actual people still living in caravans it makes sense to set it in a caravan.
Central to our story telling and productions are people, their experiences and their feelings. We feel that what people experienced in 2007's floods should be reflected upon and remembered, with accuracy.