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One Theatre, Three Actors, Overcoming Trump’s Travel Ban

THEATRE Posted: December 3, 2018 4:00 am

Celebrities including Sting and Benedict Cumberbatch, the mayors of New York and London, and the former archbishop of Canterbury intervened with the Trump administration The Jungle was a hit in London, and “the creative team and producers were reluctant to move the play without all the cast members, saying their life experiences — several had lived in the Calais refugee camp being depicted — gave the show its authenticity. But trying to get two Iranians and a Syrian into Trump-era America to perform a drama that is inherently sympathetic to refugees was, to put it mildly, daunting.”

THEATRE Published: 12.02.18

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 12.02.18

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