A Good Chance encounter in Iraq

Naomi (Good Chance’s Executive Director) and Dina (our Creative Producer) recently travelled to the Kurdish Region of Iraq and to Mosul to investigate a possible Good Chance project there in spring 2020, meeting lots of brilliant artists and artistic and humanitarian organisations along the way.

On their final evening they were speaking at an event at Re:Coded in Erbil (pictured). Before it began they got talking to some audience members.

One woman, Roza, had travelled three hours from Duhok to hear the talk. She seemed excited to meet Naomi and Dina.

Roza had lived in the UK for a year in 2018 doing a master’s before returning to teach at the University of Duhok. She got to telling Naomi and Dina about all the plays she went to see in London. One of them had been a play called… The Jungle?

Roza’s face beamed when she found out it was a Good Chance production - a totally magical and inspiring moment on the other side of the world to the West End of London!

She’d never seen a Kurdish person represented on the stage before, and was so happy to go back to Duhok and tell her students about the show, the Kurdish character, and the immersive experience so unlike anything she thought they would have seen or have a chance to see in Duhok.

A wonderful meeting of minds and hearts!