ARTIST DEVELOPMENT

THE LIMBO CLUB

A Good Chance production in partnership with Micro Rainbow

Directed by Elias Matar
Co-Devised and Performed by members of the Micro Rainbow community, all from displaced backgrounds

We all have stories to tell. Some we're asked to share. Some we're forced to repeat. And some we've never had the freedom to say out loud at all. But what happens when the story is ours to choose?

Step behind the velvet curtains of The Limbo Club, a dazzling world of extravagant characters and endless entertainment, where the music never stops, the waiting never ends, and the residents tell the same stories night after night after night.

Until tonight, that is, when everything changes…

Join us for a deliciously defiant evening of music, dance, comedy and storytelling on November 13th & 14th 2026.

Co-created with LGBTQIA+ refugees and people seeking asylum, The Limbo Club is a bold, saucy celebration of love and self-expression. Expect glamour, big voices and a whole lot of heart.

MEET THE TEAM

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  • Elias Matar
    Director

    Co-Devised and Performed by members of the Micro Rainbow community, all from displaced backgrounds

    Nick Powell
    Composer and Sound Designer

    Ruba Shamshoum
    Composer and Musician

    Nuno Brito
    Composer and Percussion

    Natalie Pryce
    Set and Costume Designer

    Benjamin Vetluzhskikh
    Lighting Designer

    Connie Treves
    Dramaturgy

    Giansue Cansu Ezgi Ince
    Movement Director & Workshop Facilitator

    Lois Sime
    Stage Manager

    Melanie Bafitis
    Producer

    Mardin Mahmoudpour
    Hope Show Coordinator & Facilitator

    Amir Hussain Ibrahimi
    Documentary Filmmaker & Production Coordinator

The Limbo Club joins the legacy of Good Chance’s Hope Shows, co-created performances that began in our Dome in the Calais Jungle refugee camp and later in Paris, London, Sheffield and beyond. Each show was produced with the local community of refugees and asylum seekers, celebrating their unique artistic talents, and offering a space for people to come together and dream of a shared future.

The Limbo Club is part of the revival of this founding project, relaunched in 2025 with The Wish Tree with Migrants Organise, and this year presented in London with an extraordinary group of LGBTQIA+ community members from displaced backgrounds in partnership with Micro Rainbow.

Thank you so much to our funders and friends for helping make our Hope Show dreams come true, especially to the generosity and vision of Alexander Leff, the Rothschild Foundation, the Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation and the SHM Foundation.