At least 15 migrants died last year in and around Calais as they spent months in squalid camps, playing a nightly - and, increasingly, daily - lethal game of cat and mouse to board the trucks.
It seemed that life got harder the older you got, the more responsibility you had and the kids just carried on playing, but they were playing in really squalid conditions.
It's just the sort of environment in which polio thrives yet around us are about a dozen children, who all look under the age of five, playing in these squalid conditions.
He almost invariably writes about the unmoneyed, the unfashionable, the desperate and the disturbed, and sets his plays in low-rent or squalid climes.
The actors underscore the absurdity of the enterprise by performing in a heightened, melodramatic style that befits the sometimes squalid settings and lurid action of these early plays, in which O'Neill was just beginning to grope toward his dramatic maturity.
''It was not far off poverty and was certainly squalid conditions.'' The family squabbles were played out in public thanks to the British media's fascination with this ordinary English family and their castle.
Instead, the Democratic nominee has ended up playing a sometimes secondary role in a squalid American epic.
Tip!" Joe is often also referred to by the name "Sackerson", and Kitcher describes him as "a figure sometimes playing the role of policeman, sometimes a squalid derelict, and most frequently the odd-job man of HCE's inn, Kate's male counterpart, who can ambiguously indicate an older version of HCE".
Matthew, Tom and Ben are all playing versions of themselves, living together in a squalid flat (as they did in real life when they first came to London).
Elmer Robinson was the director's grandfather, and his family has always believed that the squalid features of the case — the corpses, the helpless women — played havoc with his already shaken morale and ended his career as a detective.
