From Calais to London and Paris: UK writers give new life to refugees’ theatre

The venue that entertained the razed camp's migrants will reopen in France - as its playwright founders find acclaim at the Young Vic

When the tent in Calais that housed the Good Chance Theatre came down in the spring of last year, as the refugee camp known as "the Jungle" was cleared, the two 25-year-old British playwrights who set it up pledged that the story would not finish there. "We know it is not the end," Joe Murphy told the Observer last year.

This weekend, sure enough, a new future is dawning. Not only has The Jungle, the challenging play that Murphy wrote with Joe Robertson just opened in London to admiring reviews, but "the Joes" have also revealed that their pop-up refugee theatre - visited by leading British actors such as Jude Law, Toby Jones and Benedict Cumberbatch - is to rise again next month, this time in Paris.

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