The cross-generational bonding between the women, teenagers and girls is a wonderful aspect of the total production experience. "You become a surrogate family," says Klein Greenwald, the director. "For the teenagers, the experience of working with adult women who are not either their teachers or mothers enables them to build unique collegial relationships." To enable as many teens as possible to benefit from the experience, the writers created additional parts. Of the 400 women who auditioned, approximately 100 were cast. In addition, 150 young girls perform in pre-curtain time choir.

"It gives me a tremendous amount of personal satisfaction knowing that we [the production team] are making so many girls and women happy, both as viewers and participants."

"The concept began last year as a "feel-good experience". We thought that if we made any money we would pass it on to terror victims wtih specific needs. Much to everyone's surprise, we made $30,000. The money was donated on a confidential basis and funnelled to those in need via social workers. Ruthie Gillis, whose husband, a physician at Hadassah Hospital, was murdered by terrorists, thanked the cast publically, as she received help to purchase a bullet-proof car for her family," says Klein Greenwald. "She was only one of the many who were helped by the funds that came in."

For Klein Greenwald, an educator and writer by profession, working on this play, where a significant percentage of the cast have been directly affected by terror incidents, through personal close calls or the loss or injury of friends or family, not much has changed. She recalls that 26 years ago she worked with children from Safed in the Galilee. The school where they were sleeping in Maalot, on a school trip, was infiltrated by terrorists and they were taken hostage. Those who survived managed to jump out of the windows of the school while they looked on in horror as their friends and siblings were murdered.

Profits from Esther and the Secrets in the King's Court will go to The Gush Etzion Foundation to help families whose lives have been devastated by terrorism, and to create related projects in communities that have been hurt by terror.