Too Much of Water is a live, one-man storytelling performance about the impact of the major floods that hit Shipley on Boxing Day, 2015. It premiered outdoors in September 2016, as part of the Saltaire Festival, and subsequently toured to numerous locations during that autumn. A slightly revised version of the show will also play a number of dates in the autumn of 2017.

The film version below was shot in a television studio at Bath Spa University in February 2017. Please note that it should be treated primarily as archival documentation of a theatre event, rather than as a film in its own right. Quite a lot is lost in moving from the live theatrical dynamic to a canned recording. There was no live audience to respond with laughter, gasps, etc. And whereas the spectator of the play can let her/his eyes roam across the space, the film edit necessarily fixes what you can look at when. In addition, we had insufficient time on the day of recording to devise and rehearse a detailed strategy for which camera the performer was looking into, at any given moment. All these caveats aside, though, we hope that the story still comes across…