Revealing The Jungle’s human side
The Jungle is on the move. The breathtaking Young Vic sensation could take root at the Playhouse Theatre, near Charing Cross.
The play, by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, explored the ramshackle refugee and migrant camp in Calais.
All too often the occupants of the Jungle camp are depicted as less than third-class citizens, but this production gave them names and faces, and, for a change, told their side of the story.
Director Stephen Daldry and designer Miriam Buether are liaising with the Young Vic, the National Theatre, Sonia Friedman Productions and Good Chance Theatre on how Buether’s excellent set can be shifted into the Playhouse.
Discussions are ongoing about how to reconfigure the Playhouse stage and transform the auditorium.
The project’s at an early stage, but if the design can be sorted then The Jungle hopes to be up and running in the Playhouse by early June. It’s an unmissable theatrical experience.