Okot wants nothing more than to get to the UK. Beth wants nothing more than to help him.
Join the hopeful, resilient residents of 'The Jungle', the refugees and volunteers from around the globe who gather at the Afghan Café. They're just across the Channel, right on our doorstep.
Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson's The Jungle premiered as a co¬production between Young Vic and the National Theatre with Good Chance Theatre, commissioned by the National Theatre, opening at the Young Vic, London, in December 2017. It transferred to the Playhouse Theatre, London, in June 2018.
The play made its North American premiere at St. Ann's Warehouse in New York in 2018 and enjoyed a subsequent engagement at The Curran in San Francisco in 2019. In 2023, The Jungle returned to the US, running at St. Ann's Warehouse and Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington D.C.
Joe Murphy grew up in Leeds and Joe Robertson grew up in Hull. They began writing plays together at university in 2011. Their short plays include
Fairway Manor (Burton Taylor Studio, Oxford Playhouse),
Ten Bits on Boondoggling and
Paper Play (Edinburgh Fringe) and
Maria Popova (Manchester festivals). In 2015, they established Good Chance in the 'Jungle' refugee and migrant camp in Calais, a space of expression where theatre, art, dance and music could be made. They lived there for seven months until the eviction of the southern half of the camp. Their first full-length play,
The Jungle, based on their experience in Calais, opened at the Young Vic in 2017, before transferring to the West End (2018), New York (2019/2023), San Francisco (2019) and Washington DC (2023). In 2021, Good Chance co-created
The Walk, an 8,000km moving festival of welcome from Syria to Manchester with Little Amal, a three-metre tall puppet based on a character from
The Jungle.
Joe Murphy grew up in Leeds and Joe Robertson grew up in Hull. They began writing plays together at
university in 2011. Their short plays include Fairway Manor (Burton Taylor Studio, Oxford Playhouse), Ten
Bits on Boondoggling and Paper Play (Edinburgh Fringe) and Maria Popova (Manchester festivals). In 2015, they established Good Chance in the 'Jungle' refugee and migrant camp in Calais, a space of expression where theatre, art, dance and music could be made. They lived there for seven months until the eviction of the southern half of the camp. Their first full-length play, The Jungle, based on their experience in Calais, opened at the Young Vic in 2017, before transferring to the West End (2018), New York (2019/2023), San Francisco (2019) and Washington DC (2023). In 2021, Good Chance co-created The Walk, an 8,000km moving festival of welcome from Syria to Manchester with Little Amal, a three-metre tall puppet based on a character from The Jungle.
