"... Theater Stap is justifiably proud to have chosen 'Naar Andorra'. The performers knew hardly anything about Auschwitz, even though people like them were also put on the death trains during the war. ... The director Marc Bryssinck opted for multiformity: acting, narration, a video, choreography. There is the somewhat awkward, correct play of the actors. Meaningful text fragments are projected on the rear wall. Bryssinck himself strings the scenes together with his suave narrator voice. In video fragments the characters literally wash themselves in innocence. And then there are the wordless, almost ritualistic ensemble scenes: the laying down a rail track or the giving of peace offerings to the occupier (that finally did invade). 'Naar Andorra', because of its multiformity, is very incoherent. ... Despite this the performance really affects you during its strongest scenes (the lamentations from different cultures, the painful insistent repetition of some lines). 'Naar Andorra' shows us a few distressing scenes and is ,because of this, more than just an instructive history lesson. Tolerance (sic) can, regrettably, be found in any day and age.

"During the latest production of 'Naar Andorra' Theater Stap in Turnhout takes the challenge on head on. In a story where the persecution of the Jews is the central theme, Auschwitz is always lurking around the corner. In other times, in other places the mentally disabled actors would have probably shared the same faith. In short, the actors had to live up to very high expectations this time. Whether Theater Stap lived up to these expectations during the opening night, Thursday evening in their home front De Warande? With flying colours. 'Andorra' by Swiss autor Max Frisch formed the basis for this production. In an idyllic state all tolerance is lost when Andri the Jew wants to integrate himself. The tense atmosphere only increases when the warlike and Jew hating 'blacks' threaten to invade Andorra. "What is virgin white now, will be soon scarlet" predicts a legionnaire. Without any prejudice you think at the start that the story would be too difficult for the cast of Theater Stap. That might be why the company not only went to the Jewish community in Antwerp to prepare themselves, but also visited Auschwitz. Immersions that certainly paid off on stage Thursday evening. The audience hardly made any sound, occasionally an uncomfortable laugh broke the silence. Because what do you do when a cute mongol pretends to be in the SS? Moreover, the video screens that switch between virgin white and scarlet regularly lash out at the audience with sneers like: "when it concerns money, we're all Jews". An oppressive finale reached its climax during a short documentary about their trip to Auschwitz. All that followed next, was a standing ovation. Not because it is expected at an opening night, but because it simply had to happen.