1933-1936. A young generation dreams of a new world order. From 1941 onwards, many of them join the Nazi ideology and go to the Eastern Front. Were they misled? Were they really that naive?
Author and dramatist Peter van Kraaij introduces a Flemish family: Staf, a member of the Dietse Militie; his wife Marije; their son Jef, a member of the Flemish Legion on the Eastern Front; their daughter Mie, a member of the Dietse Meisjesscharen; Hubert, Staf's brother and not involved in the collaboration; and uncle Laurens, a priest and Marije's brother.
Their testimonies are combined with other voices. Among them: Channa, a young Jewish woman, and Aloysius, a soldier on the Eastern Front. Present too, are the Belgian Léon Degrelle, founder of the fascist movement Rex and active in the Walloon Legion, and Otto Skorzeny, an Austrian and decorated officer in the Waffen-SS. Yellow is a mulltilingual choir that evokes the grim zeitgeist of the 1930s, supporter live by the music of composer and multi-instrumentalist Sam Gysel.
In the spring of 2021, Yellow premiered as a theatre film, which landed a four star review in The Guardian, much praise for the cast in The New York Times and was selected for Theaterfestival 2021. In the fall of 2021, Yellow premiered live in Ghent.
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director
- Luk Perceval
performance
- Bert Luppes
- Chris Thys
- Lien Wildemeersch
- Maria Shulga
- Philip Kelz
- Oscar Van Rompay
- Peter Seynaeve
- Valéry Warnotte
dramaturgy
- Steven Heene
- Peter van Kraaij
- Margit Niederhuber
set design
- Annette Kurz
costume design
- Ilse Vandenbussche
production
- NTGent
text
- Peter van Kraaij
music
- Sam Gysel
light design
- Mark Van Denesse
assistant decor design
- Sammy Van den Heuvel
rope lounge coach
- Ted Stoffer
language coach
- Elke De Brouwer
directing assistance
- Liesbeth Standaert
production management
- Els Jacxsens
tourmanager
- Mimi van de Put
tour assistant & surtitles
- Liesbeth Standaert
technical production management
- Chris Vanneste
first stage manager
- Marijn Vlaeminck
light
- Sander Michiels
sound
- Bart Meeusen
- Frederik Vanslembrouck
stage technician
- Eddy Deschepper
- Ramon Blancquart
dresser
- Micheline D'Hertoge
stage direction
- Zephyr Brüggen
- Delphine Delabeye
stage dramaturgy
- Ingrid Haugen
- Martijn Gielen
- Emmeline Henderickx
stage set and costume design
- Chloé Wasselin
stage production
- Fine Stoffels
coproduction
- Landestheater Niederösterreich, St. Pölten
- Le Manège Maubeuge
with the support of
- The Belgian Tax Shelter