DOCUMENTARY THEATRE AND ITS USE

The bachelor's thesis summarizes various views on documentary theatre within the theatre praxis. It cites current definitions of such practice and discusses the extent to which it is topical. The thesis is based partly on film theory, gives examples of theatre productions which are founded on documentary material and also refers to examples from the history of theatre. Among the notions to which it refers are the Living newspapers, postdramatic theatre or the Verbatim method. In its second part, the thesis reflects on the process of realization of a documentary task assigned to the author in the second year of study. It assesses the outcome critically and engages with the problems that arose in the course of the work and relates them to documentary theatre. In the final part, the thesis evaluates the overall beneficence of the assignment for the author's studies and develops an argument presenting the advantages and disadvantages of documentary practice as a basis for theatre production in contemporary social context