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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arifa Akbar

SneakPeek: Shadow Game review – innovative record of a refugee’s journey

SneakPeek: Shadow Game.
Playing ‘the game’ … SneakPeek: Shadow Game Photograph: PR IMAGE

This innovative production is pioneering storytelling in more ways than one. Downloaded from an app and absorbed on a smartphone, it is received over a seven-day stretch and billed as “the world’s first real-time digital documentary”.

Created by Belgian theatre company SKaGeN as part of the Edinburgh festival fringe’s Big in Belgium season, we follow Sajid Khan, a teenager from Afghanistan who is trekking across huge swathes of land in Europe, along the Balkan route, often in the most perilous conditions, in a bid to find harbour.

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