The Flood

Badac Theatre return with a typically visceral study of the devastating effects of the insanity of war on an intimate relationship.

Badac created The Flood in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the first World War, described at the time as ‘the war to end all wars’, Badac Theatre company present a typically uncompromising portrayal of the unspeakable horror wrought on humanity by wars past, present and, God forbid, future.

The Flood is set in the bloody battlefields of WW1 and premiered in a small previously unused cellar space below Summerhall at The Edinburgh Festival 2014.

It recreates the unimaginable horror of the conflict with an explicit depiction of the slaughter of millions of soldiers torn from their ordinary lives to fight in perhaps the most hellishly filthily squalid conditions and daily terror endured by man.

A parallel love story explores the devastating effects on the women who loved those men. As the insanity of the war intensifies, it follows an emerging relationship between a front line infantryman and the woman whose love gives him hope.

The drama switches between the visceral horror of war, to their increasingly passionate yet ultimately tragic love affair.