DRAMATURGY AS AN ATTEMPT AT SOCIAL DISCOURSE?

The thesis ?Dramaturgy as an attempt at social discourse?? describes and analyses the selected seasons at four theatres: Münchner Kammerspiele, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, Divadlo Na zábradlí and Divadlo Komedie (Pkd). Starting from these considerations, it examines their individual dramaturgy concepts and strives to express both specific and general features of their approach to establish them. The attention focuses on both the ideas behind and the content of individual concepts, as well as on their constituting elements, their layering and internal relationships. The author of the thesis both mediates and reflects on her own personal experience with the mentioned theatres. She is especially interested in their efforts targeting the development of various discourses related to contemporary, social-relevant themes. In this way, she explores both the opportunities and the forms of the so-called discursive dramaturgy. This concept she treats in this thesis as a particular direction of dramaturgical thinking resulting from the necessity for the theatre to get over the artificial reality of the stage, relate to the reality beyond the stage itself and look for its meaning there