Details

August 2005 saw one of the worst natural disasters hit the United States as Hurricane Katrina destroyed the city of New Orleans, causing a humanitarian crisis. Katrina tells the stories of the survivors in the immediate aftermath through music and verbatim testimony. In August 2005 Hurricane Katrina narrowly missed New Orleans. The resulting storms breached rotting levees and emptied neighbouring Lake Pontchartrain into the city. Marooned by floodwater that swamped over 80% of their homes, the inhabitants had to wait a week without food or clean water before their own government came to their aid. Katrina uses survivor testimonies and the rich musical tradition of New Orleans to tell the story of the immediate aftermath of the hurricane. Staged in a five-storey warehouse on London's south bank, Jericho House's new play takes the audience on an odyssey through a drowned city, enveloped in the most immersive of visual and aural designs, in the company of individuals displaced and abandoned within their own city. A promenade production composed entirely of accounts provided by both survivors and those responsible for the failed relief effort following the hurricane which destroyed the City of New Orleans in August 2005. Shedding light on some of the more extraordinary and under-reported aspects of the situation, Katrina.

Cast/Performers

Andrew Dennis, Andrea Harris, Stephanie Langton, Wunmi Mosaku, Joe Speare, Orlando Wells

Creatives/Company

Author: Jonathan Holmes
Producer: Jericho House
Director: Jonathan Holmes
Sound(s): Peter Readman, Peter Nash