Touché

**In the empty school building**
A city without young people. At least almost without. And not forever either. But now everyone is in the ski camp and the school building is empty. Only six are still there. They didn't go along. Weren't allowed? Didn't want to? They don't know about each other. They don't really know anything about each other. And yet they have ideas about who the others are. And they are pretty accurate every time.

The play addresses the desire to be really seen. At the same time, it thus asks about the justification of attributions that people expect of each other on a daily basis. Is there no other way to endure complexity? Does the world have to be divided into opposites – right or wrong, man or woman, "the one" or "the other"?

Mitch, Newbie, Chamomile, The Old One, Pauline, Leslie, each of the characters has their own soundtrack that describes the character and allows insights into the inner worlds that are hidden from the outside.

Perhaps that was exactly the task for the six young people in this empty school building: to approach each other, to get to know the in-between, the ambiguous and ambivalent and to accept the touch of others.

**Who is Who**
For almost 50 years, the junges theater basel has been exactly what the name promises: the place for young theatre in Basel. Professional performances are performed here for young people. Under the direction of professional theatre professionals, young actors work on productions – for 8 weeks in a daily rehearsal period of 8 hours – which are then performed about 20 times in Basel and later shown in Switzerland and also at international festivals. The ensembles are mostly made up of young people from the theatre courses. Around the young people, positions such as directing, choreography, stage, costume, music, lighting, dramaturgy are occupied by professionals. Some productions are created as co-productions with other theatres or festivals.