![]() “I watch this damned yard of ours”, that steep point of view. ![]() This research paved a way which we share with the theatrical company “New Life” and together we’re trying to find the light at the end of this life tunnel we all have to go through. ![]() With this play I wanted to continue the research which started about ten years ago with Felix Mitterer’s “Deadly Sins”. Wishing to recreate the epic story line, dramaturge Sibila Petlevski reached for two other source texts: few of Andrić’s shorter literary works, mostly “The Journey of Alija Đerzelez”, few folk songs and Sevdah music whose honesty brings wisdom and experience in the face of which you can’t stay indifferent. In an attempt to use the circle as the symbol for the infinite wheel of life which keeps turning, repeating and crushing little human beings, we looked for specific stage arrangements that show this repetitiveness on a symbolic level. ![]() They describe real lives destroyed by gender discrimination still very present and apparent even today. At the same time, hidden form the world, in the female version of “the damned yard”, through their tragic stories women break the western romanticized idea of harem as some kind of a “golden cage”, a paradise wrapped in silk and kadaif. ![]() In the picturesque stories of Friar Petar, Haim, Zaimaga, Ćamil and Alija, subjects of isolation, tragedy and inevitable bitter fate, fatum, are intertwined through the prism of dark humor. ![]()
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