Good Chance to tour A Grain of Sand in 2026

Good Chance will present A Grain of Sand at the Arcola Theatre from 21 to 31 January 2026 before a UK tour.

The production is written and directed by the company’s deputy artistic director Elias Matar and performed by Sarah Agha. It draws on the anthology A Million Kites: Testimonies and Poems from the Children of Gaza by Leila Boukarim and Asaf Luzon and was originally commissioned by the London Palestine Film Festival as a live performance for its 2024 opening at the Barbican Cinema. The piece later appeared at the Liverpool Arab Arts Festival in 2025.

The one-woman drama follows Renad, a Gazan girl who travels in search of her family and the ‘Anqaa’, a figure of Palestinian folklore. The narrative combines children’s testimonies from contemporary Gaza with stories passed down through generations.

Dramaturgy is provided by Good Chance’s co-artistic directors Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, whose play Kyoto is currently at the Lincoln Center in New York.

Following its London dates, the production will visit Leeds Playhouse, Theatre Clwyd in Mold, the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, Bristol Old Vic, the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, Theatre Royal Plymouth, the North Wall Arts Centre in Oxford, the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry and HOME Manchester between February and March 2026.

The creative team includes set and costume designer Natalie Pryce, composer and sound designer Nick Powell, video designer Dan Light and lighting designer Jonathan Chan. A Gaza Voices advisory group has contributed to the development process.