“Fleeing makes you hungry doesn’t it?” actress Maartje Remmers asks a little brown girl with pigtails who is chewing heavily. The girl’s mother is sitting in the garden. She sits there with another dozen or so asylum seekers and looks coldly insidw through the window, where the members of Wunderbaum are rummaging around
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humorous winks, make Welcome in my Backyard enjoyable. With so many people on stage, something is also happening all the time, as if it were reality TV. Cookies are baked, there is rapping and dancing, and when two asylum seekers get sick they get to sleep in Scholten’s bed, something that makes Walter Bart even more unhappy. Thus the performance undulates over the bumps that are the result of living with strangers.”
Jowi Schmitz (NRC Handelsblad)

“And then there is the girl who is fascinated by other cultures, especially men from other cultures. Helping asylum seekers she finds as interesting as shopping. More idealistic is the fourth resident, a man who genuinely wants to do good, but is essentially too sensitive. Time after time he bursts into tears.

Walter Bart: “All are balancing between curiousness and fear. They want to be introduced to the new, but are also afraid of losing what they have.”
Annemiek Veelenturf (Rotterdams Dagblad)