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This is Studio 360. I'm Kurti Anderson.

Hello and welcome to this Studio 360 podcast Extra.

In America, despite the hysteria whipped up in the weeks leading up to the November election,

there was no influx of migrants from the South.

In other words, nothing like what happened in Europe over the last few years when hundreds

of thousands of refugees from the Middle East and Central Asia and Africa came in.

There's a new play about that migrant crisis called The Jungle, which was the nickname of the notorious

migrant camp in Calais, France. It's where thousands of refugees gathered before attempting

to cross the channel to the. to try to get asylum.

The camp is the setting for the new play, and in its production at one of the great American

venues for New Work, St. Anne's Warehouse in Brooklyn, the jungle puts the audience

inside the action. Everybody seated in a replica of the Afghan restaurant that

served as the real-life camps unofficial town center. Reporter Jeff London has our story.

When you enter the St. Anne's Warehouse Performance Space, you're given a ticket that

tells you not only your seat number,

but what country you'll be sitting in. In my case, it was Somalia, seat 24. Walking past a sign

pointing me towards an Afghan restaurant, I found myself inside a structure that looked like a large

tent with lots of tables.

A man offered me chai, and all around the space actors were chatting in different languages.

Hi, I'm Nehaltes guy. I play a character called Helen, Gabraqidan.

I am originally Eritrean, and the character I'm playing as Eritrean.

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