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Britain’s Good Chance Theatre made its name with the titular pop-up venue it brought to the Jungle refugee camp in Calais. Then came the Stephen Daldry-directed immersive play ‘The Jungle’, which documented the theatre’s inspiring-but-troubled lifespan.
Now they’re back, with a spectacularly ambitious project that will see Good Chance take its mission to create art about refugees to its logical conclusion.
‘The Walk’ is a sort of travelling festival based around a giant 3.5-metre-tall puppet girl called Little Amal, designed by Handspring Theatre (the South African maestros who brought us the puppets for ‘War Horse’). Nine-year-old Amal is a refugee – and, with the aid of puppeteers, she will literally walk the 8,000km from the Turkey-Syria border to Manchester next year, beginning her journey in July and finishing in November. (Due to you-know-what, those dates have been pushed back by several months from those originally announced.)