Identity and Personage

In her bachelor thesis, the author focuses on a dynamic space between actor´s personage and his personal identity. She relates this topic to a broader social context with an accent to the social theatrality and she compares the concepts of personal identity in both western and eastern culture, inspired among others by her residency at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing. The paper is divided into two main parts. First part presents theoretical questions of the personal identity concept and defines some concrete problems. The author focuses on those problems in the second part within her reflection of the process of creation of the graduate performance Jak je důležité míti / The Importance of Being