Alan Lane is the artistic director of Slug Low, one of the UK’s most innovative theatre companies. With the current crisis, not only does he and his company try to find ways to stage epic community theatre shows, they have to make sure hundreds of people have the resources they need during the lockdown. BBC has more details:
"Today we find ourselves with a Transit van full of crisps," he says on the phone from Leeds. "Which is amazing.
"But yesterday we didn't have any vegetables. And tomorrow we're not going to have any eggs.
"So constantly I'm on the phone doing deals. The other day, I swapped a load of tote bags that I got from the university for some face masks, which I split in half and swapped the other half for a lot of cream.
"It's constant creative thinking, constant problem solving."
Six weeks ago, Lane and his company Slung Low were asked by Leeds City Council to co-ordinate the community response in Holbeck and Beeston, meaning any requests for help from the 10,000 households in the area have been passed to them.
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