In “Gelbe Tage” (Yellow days), the war has already begun before it breaks out: despite her brother’s warnings, the woman is with a man who belongs with “the others”. His faith and his origins make him a stranger. However, the ideal of different ethnic groups living together peacefully still appears to be intact. At worst, aggression explodes whilst playing football. They even unite when a third party attacks. Husband and brother fight the enemy together, forcing him to retreat. Yet, winning is not followed by reconciliation: the conflict is now in the open and is continued within this partnership of convenience and escalates in a bloodbath. Husband and brother become deadly enemies, and the woman is caught up in between two fronts whose characteristics constantly change, until in the end, no one knows on whose side he is. 

WITH Manuel Bürgin, Sebastian Krähenbühl, Anna-Katharina Müller DIRECTION Stephan Roppel DRAMATURGY Sibylle Heim TEXT Daniela Janjic MUSIC Bo Wiget SCENOGRAPHY Marcella Maichle LIGHT DESIGN Michael Omlin COSTUMES Marcella Maichle PHOTO Niklaus Stauss PREMIERE Theater Winkelwiese, Zürich 01/2008 PRODUCTION Theater Winkelwiese COPRODUCTION Schlachthaus Theater Bern; Theater Roxy Birsfelden; Theater am Kirchplatz Schaan; Theater Tuchlaube Aarau INTERNET www.winkelwiese.ch

Daniela Janjic
Daniela Janjic grew up in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as in Sweden. She has been living in Winterthur since 1993. Between 2005 and 2007, she studied German, modern cultures and film at the University of Zurich. In 2005, she participated in the authors‘ workshop “Dramenprozessor” at the Theater an der Winkelwiese.