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Where humans fail on the world stage, send in puppets Amy Hitchcock, arts and entertainment editor © Other Amal is a puppet - a nine-year-old refugee girl. Pic: Bevan Roos "When the wings of your stage are Turkey and the UK, there's a very big stage to cover," Amir Nizar tells Sky News, pawing over a map showing the 5,000 mile journey he is about to embark on with his band of puppeteers. The creators of War Horse and The Jungle hope their latest puppet Amal, a nine-year-old refugee girl - who this weekend flies to the Turkish-Syria border to make the treacherous journey bac...

Puppet of refugee girl to ‘walk’ across Europe along 12-week arts festival trail Mark Brown, Arts correspondent © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Bevan Roos/PA A giant puppet of a nine-year-old Syrian refugee girl is to “walk” from Turkey to the UK through villages, towns and cities for one of the most ambitious and complex public artworks ever attempted. The Walk project was meant to have taken place between April and July but was delayed by the pandemic. Now the 5,000 mile (8,000km) journey of Little Amal, from Gaziantep, near the Turkish-Syrian border, to Ma...

A 12-Foot Puppet of a Syrian Girl Will Travel 5,000 Miles This Summer as Part of a Wildly Ambitious Art Project About the Plight of Refugees Little Amal will celebrate her 10th birthday at the V&A museum in London. Good Chance theater company, The Walk, featuring the Little Amal puppet created by Handspring Puppet Company, as seen in London. Photo by Nick Wall, courtesy of Good Chance theater company. A giant puppet of a young Syrian girl will travel nearly 5,000 miles this summer in an intercontinental public art project from London’s Good Chance theater company. The Walk, as the project...

Advertising Britain’s Good Chance Theatre made its name with the titular pop-up venue it brought to the Jungle refugee camp in Calais. Then came the Stephen Daldry-directed immersive play ‘The Jungle’, which documented the theatre’s inspiring-but-troubled lifespan. Now they’re back, with a spectacularly ambitious project that will see Good Chance take its mission to create art about refugees to its logical conclusion. ‘The Walk’ is a sort of travelling festival based around a giant 3.5-metre-tall puppet girl called Little Amal, designed by Handspring Theatre (the South African ...