PRESS
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AWARDS
Manchester Culture Awards, Winner of Best Performance 2022 for The Walk: When the Birds with Manchester International Festival
Bertha Artivism Award 2022
Michael Nyqvist Award 2021
Time Out London ‘Best Public Artwork Award’ 2021 for The Walk
Broadway World UK, Winner of Best New Production of a Play for The Jungle
South Bank Arts Award for Theatre 2018 for The Jungle
Genesis Prize 2018
Empty Space Peter Brook Award 2016
Evening Standard Theatre Awards, Editors Award 2016
Associate Company at the Young Vic Theatre 2016 - 2019
& Nominations for Southbank Sky Arts Award for Theatre 2021 (The Walk) · Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award 2016 · Just Giving Crowdfunder Award 2016 · The Stage International Award 2016 · Groucho Club Maverick Award 2016.
OUT OF THE MARGINS
Further Features in The Washington Post, The Independent, Sky News, The Financial Times, CNN, and more.
THE JUNGLE, ST ANN’S WAREHOUSE AND SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY 2023
The New York Times - ‘We’ve experienced the stories we’re telling’: The Jungle is back.’
Vogue - ‘A new production of The Jungle Revisits a Timeless Crisis’
The Washington Post - 'In The Jungle, refugees act in show inspired by their journeys'
The Washington Post - 'Welcome to the scintillating Jungle. Bring your empathy.'
THE JUNGLE, CURRAN THEATRE 2019
San Francisco Chronicle - ‘The play explores ideas as the fundamental human need to re-create a sense of home.’
SFist - ‘Loud, visceral, messy story of a real-life refugee camp.’
KQed - ‘The Jungle, an unforgettable experience inside a transformed Curran theater.’
Further Reviews via Time Out San Francisco and SF Examiner.
THE JUNGLE, ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE 2018
New York Times - ‘The pure energy of actors creating a world of people creating a world of their own is exhilarating.’ (NYT Critic’s Pick)
The Washington Post - ‘See The Jungle and you won’t be able to get the plight of refugees out of your head.’
Vogue - ‘The Refugee Crisis Takes Centre Stage.’
Telegraph - ‘Story of the Calais jungle reaches New York after refugee actors overcome Trump’s travel ban.’
Further Features in Playbill and The New York Times
& Reviews via New York Stage Review and The Hollywood Reporter.
THE JUNGLE, WEST END 2018
The Guardian - ★★★★★ ’This is that rare thing: a necessary piece of theatre.’
The Telegraph - ★★★★★ ‘The human warmth of those we encounter is inspiring – the West End just got a heart transplant.’
Evening Standard - ★★★★★ ‘Courageous show is a tribute to hope and a sobering reminder.’
What's on Stage - ★★★★★ ‘This is the most important play of the decade.’
The Stage - ★★★★★ ‘Atmospheric, stirring and profound.’
Broadway World - ★★★★★ ‘This is one of the most vital pieces of theatre ever to grace the stage.’
London Theatre - ★★★★★ ‘It’s West End theatre like you’ve never seen.’
Further Features in The Evening Standard, London Theatre, The Guardian, The Guilty Feminist, The Stage interview with our very own Mo Sarrar, WhatsOnStage, The Evening Standard, Middle East Eye, Broadway Buzz, The British Black List, NewStatesman and more.
THE JUNGLE, YOUNG VIC 2017/2018
The Guardian - ★★★★★ ‘Devastating yet uplifting story of the migrant crisis.’ by Lyn Gardner
The Guardian - ★★★★★ ‘Intimate tragedy from across the Channel.’
Financial Times - ‘A remarkable, urgent play.’
The Independent - ★★★★★ 'Wonderfully humane and illuminating.'
The Stage - ★★★★★ ‘Vital, vibrant and extraordinarily moving.’
What's On Stage - ★★★★★ ’It makes you think and feel in a way that theatre very rarely does.’
The Times - Theatre review: The Jungle at the Young Vic
Further Features in BBC News, Vanity Fair, The New York Times and Culturebox
& Reviews via The Times, The Telegraph, The Evening Standard, The Economist, Migrant Voice and more.
FLY WITH ME
The Times - ‘Colourful kites flutter in skies across Britain and Europe in an aerial act of solidarity’
ITV News - ‘We are flying kites because they banned kite-flying. It's a tradition that connects people.’
Channel 4 News - Afghanistan: Kites flown across UK in ‘act of defiance’ against Taliban
The Independent - Kites fly over Hampstead Heath to mark one year since Taliban took over Afghanistan
Access full list of press coverage here.
THE WALK
The Guardian - COP26: ‘Little Amal’ puppet opens Gender Day at climate summit
The New York Times - Little Amal, a Refugee Puppet, Looks for Home
The Guardian - ‘People felt threatened even by a puppet refugee’: Little Amal’s epic walk through love and fear’
The Atlantic - The Journey of Little Amal
Further Features in The Stage, BBC News, Time Out, What’s On Stage, Global Citizen, Arab News, Evening Standard, Sky News, Michael Morpurgo’s Cultural Highlights 2020, The Guardian (plus Picture Features of Little Amal across Europe and in London), and more.
ARTIST DEVELOPMENT
The Stage - Good Chance Theatre forms apprenticeship scheme for young refugees
Vice - The Refugee Who Smuggled Himself Out of Camps and into 'Rocket Man'
Directors Notes - Majid Adin & Stephen McNally Deliver a Stunning New Take on Elton John’s Iconic ‘Rocket Man’
Broadway World - Good Chance Ensemble short films, commissioned by The Space, launches today
The Stage - Girum Bekele, Q&A interview with Giverny Masso
Further Features on BBC Radio London and The Times Radio.
SOUNDS OF REFUGE
International Arts Manager - ‘Sounds of Refuge is a journal and expression of thoughts and feelings in raw sound – the kind that one writes when journeying far from home.’
Mind the Blog - ’A wonderful artistic endeavour filled with hypnotic melodies & lyrical language, and the power of hope.’
The News - Victorious Festival to host world premier of new musical project
DOMES
SHEFFIELD 2020 FREEDOME and CHANGE THE WORD
The Stage - Good Chance and Sheffield Theatres partner to celebrate migrants in pop-up festival
The Daily Mirror - Mazin from the Change the Word Sheffield collective talks about his involvement in Refugee Week 2020
Further Feature on BBC Radio Sheffield.
COVENTRY 2018 DOME IN A DAY
Broadway World - Good Chance announces New Season line up summer 2019
Further Features on BBC Sounds Radio.
PARIS 2017 - 2018
London Review of Books - A day in the life of Good Chance Paris
The Guardian - Hope couture: refugees collaborate on Paris catwalk show.
The Ground Truth Project - ‘[The Dome] is a place where we can forget, and where we can feel like we’re not alone.’
The Stage - Beyond the Jungle: Good Chance refugee theatre pops up in Paris
i/O Gazette - Good Chance Theatre: le retour en grâce de l’agora
Further Features in Libération, Time Out Paris, London Theatre, L’Info Durable, Café Babel, Télématin Regions France, The Stage, France 24, London Review of Books, Street Press, La Terrasse, NPR, L'humanité and Telerama.
ENCAMPMENT FESTIVAL AT THE SOUTHBANK CENTRE, SUMMER 2016
Evening Standard - Good Chance set up a theatre in the Calais Jungle – now they're coming to the Southbank
The Stage - Calais’ Good Chance theatre comes to London
The Arts Desk - What are the arts doing here? by John Martin (Pan Intercultural Arts)
Further Features in What’s On Stage (plus an additional feature about Cush Jumbo’s performance) BBC World Service and East London & West Essex Guardian.
CALAIS 2015 - 2016
Bloomberg, CityLab 2016 Summit - What a Theater Means to a Refugee Camp
The Guardian - Stars sign up as buddies to help Calais children reunite with UK families
The Guardian - Between the razor-wire and the riot police: the amazing shows I saw at the Calais Jungle theatre by Christopher Haydon
The Times - The boy grabs for my jacket as his friend pulls out a knife by A A Gill
The Times - The Calais Jungle is a dump but in it I found music, poetry and humanity by Tom Stoppard
Newsweek - Michael Morpurgo: Why Refugees In The Calais 'Jungle' Deserve Our Help
Evening Standard - Meet the army of creative London volunteers at the heart of the Calais Jungle
Al Jazeera US - Welcome to the 'Jungle' in Calais
Further Features in The Guardian Books Podcast, The Stage, The Daily Mirror, Huffington Post, BBC Front Row, The Times, The Guardian, BBC News, Suitcase Magazine, CultureBox, Buzzfeed (plus a feature on The Globe’s production of Hamlet), Vice, Die Welt, El Mundo and Libération
Plus Evening Standard, Editor’s Award, Vanity Fair’s list of 14 British Theater Talents Ready to Break Out and Index on Censorship 2016 Awards Nomination Interview
& see also the Channel 4 News Video of the Jungle’s destruction.
GENERAL
American Theatre - 'That’s what Good Chance is all about. Making people feel welcome.'
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