Pure suspense! Today it counts! A year of work, a year of drafting and discarding ideas, writing texts, adding songs, speech and dance exercises and much more. After all, the play written by the kids themselves with the help of playwright Wolfsmehl should please the audience in the S'ensemble theater.

It will not be performed as a normal play, but as a staged reading in which individual scenes are acted out or the rap songs of the pics4peace theater kids are danced to. Some kids are in front of the stage, some behind it. Everything is made by them: from the lyrics to the poster, from the advertising to the lighting.

You can hear the pin drop in the packed auditorium. The excitement has made everyone lose their voice. Even the restless fidgeting and whispering triggered by stage fright has fallen silent.

THE CLASS - the title of the play - has begun. A class, as in real life, with students from different social, cultural, geographical and religious backgrounds. A class trip is supposed to bring them together. But not everyone has the money. That's why one girl can't go. How she fared, what she had to suffer and experience, is recorded in exciting scenes. What conflicts arise from this situation, also for the others, and how they can be overcome together in the end - with all the ups and downs - is told in this lively play.

The young authors and actors put all their expressiveness into their roles and into the dance that carries the cool rap songs from the stage into the audience. Because there, too, the rhythm and the message that together you can do anything has arrived.

Wolfsmehl, a playwright whose plays are performed internationally and who was the kids' author mentor, had introduced them to the secrets of screenwriting and accompanied them through all the ups and downs for a year. "So good what the kids have accomplished! I'm really proud of them." The other alliance partners were also thrilled.

Thanks also to Paul Gebauer, FSJ at sensemble theater, for the cool pics!