On Monday, the 15th October 2018, our class was in the theatre. We watched the performance “1210 km – The Space Between Us”. For this performance a lot of kids from Glasgow and Berlin had exchanged their ideas how to do a performance about the Brexit, about what is meant by “homeland or Heimat”, about the contact between two kids who live in different countries but do not lose their contact and many topics more.

In one scene a German-Cuban girl gave her opinion about how terrible clichés are and said that she felt like a Cuban girl but in Cuba they don’t see her as a Cuban girl. She spoke very angrily and loudly about it. She became louder and louder. I could hear the wrath in her voice. She was really angry about not being accepted because her Spanish sounded “German”. I think she was glad to talk about it and that we listened.

In another scene a girl came on stage with loud Iron Maiden music and sang to it. She was rocking on stage, shaking her head. She said that she was an Iron Maidan fan and asked if anybody didn’t like Iron Maiden. The meaning was that she wanted to show that she was different to the other kids on the stage and that this was part of her identity. She wanted to be accepted.

Then there was also a girl who sang the song “I will always love you” by Whitney Houston. For this performance kids with stars helped her to show that this is about the Brexit. With the blue background the stage looked like the European flag. The meaning was that even if the Brexit comes, the kids from Glasgow will always be a part of us, of Europe.

At the end we had the chance to talk to the actors and the director. Before the play came on stage the actors worked a lot for the performance, and they also said that the hardest part was to agree on ideas because there were so many different ideas. They always spoke with each other in English and exchanged their ideas by using social media. Then they met in Glasgow and then in Berlin to practise. Finally, they became friends.

I liked the performance because the kids talked about so many problems kids have at our age, like you don’t know where your homeland is, and I think that is very important to talk about it, and there could not be a better way than showing it in a performance for kids and adults.

By R. Z., 8s1