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 cultural
tradition of New Orleans to tell the story of the immediate
aftermath of the hurricane. Shedding light on some of the more
extraordinary and under-reported aspects of the tragedy, the play
portrays an odyssey through a drowned space and a series of
encounters with individuals displaced and abandoned within their
own city. The plot follows from the death of Virgil, a decadent old
New Orleanian, who has been killed by Hurricane Katrina. Trapped by
the rising floodwater his partner Beatrice determines to take his
body to safety at City Hall. During her journey she encounters a
number of other survivors and hears their tales. A Jericho House
production, Katrina premiered at the Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf,
on 1 September 2009.
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