Utrecht – They both come from far away, but their path to here was completely different. Director and violinist Eros Chien came from Taiwan to study here, actor Benyam Goush Alema fled from Eritrea. Together they create the performance In Transit, about places such as an asylum seekers’ center that are not meant to stay. And about how being a refugee is a phase and not an identity. Benyam: “I am more than a refugee. I have my opinion, my ideas, my personality. This is what I want to show.”
‘Being a refugee is a phase, not an identity’: Theater about how you become part of society as a refugee
