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The work process of the performance is based on the play "Ricky's Kindergarten" by David Grossman. Through his inspiration we dealt with the period of childhood. We worked on the children's characters from the play, and parallel to this we intuitively develop the adult characters – forty year olds – who the kids grow up to be.
The play itself is divided into two parts: in the first part the audience meets a group of people, graduates of Ricky's kindergarten, who return for a sort of "reunion meeting" at their childhood kindergarten. The supposed innocent meeting quickly transforms to one that is charged and dramatic. The residues of the past come up and affect the group, and the childhood experience that was supposedly forgotten behind raise their heads and take a bite out of the present.
The second part of the evening is devoted to a scene that is taken from the original play, when "the excuse" for this transition is concealed in a mysterious letter that is discovered behind the childhood pictures on the wall. It is revealed that this refers to a letter that the kindergarten teacher wrote to them before she died...
"Honorable graduates, hello. I am very ill, and I am organizing my various articles, like a person who is at the end of his life. You were my last group of children in my kindergarten. When you finished my kindergarten and went to the first grade, I decided to retire from my role as a kindergarten teacher. I never agreed to speak about it, but I made quite a few mistakes in my work with you, and my guilty feelings about this accompanied me for many years. One of these days I installed a camera in the kindergarten and documented your activity. When I found the recording among my belongings and played it, I understood that I have to transfer it to you, even if this is done after my demise. I am leaving you the recording in a video machine and I am asking that you look at it by yourselves as children, with the proper degree of love, sorrow and forgiveness. You were excellent children, each one of you, and I am sure that you grew up to be good people. My last request of you is to look at the recording together. Lots of love, Ricky."
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