2 December 9.10-3.00 pm

WHAT? Themes and History of Documentary Theatre. Statements

chair: Attila SZABÓ

09.10-09.30 Thomas IRMER (D): After a Decade of New Documentary Theatre – where do we go from here?

09.30-09.45 Andrea TOMPA (HU): Documentary as Oblivion (And a Little Bit of Memory): Nature Theater of Oklahoma

09.45-10.00 Péter P. MÜLLER (HU): Fact and Fiction, Document and Fantasy – Is There a Difference, and Does It Matter At All?

10.00-10.15 Joachim FIEBACH (D): Laying Bare Realities

coffee break

10.30-10.45                                       

Daria FEHÉROVA (SK): Natural and Artificial Ways of Remembering Slovak History

10.45-11.00                                       

Kornélia DERES (HU): Whose Story and Why? Documentary Theatre and Its Protagonists

11.00-11.20                                       

David SCHWARTZ (RO): I Declare, at My Own Risk … (case study)

coffee break

11.45-12.30 Debate

To what extent can documentary theatre be considered a new phenomenon, or has it always existed in a way, but called on a different name? How can we interpret the relationship between history and documentary drama?

12.30-13.30 Lunch

HOW? Dramaturgy and Theatre Tools of Documentary Theatre STATEMENTS               

chair: Katalin VECSEY (HU/USA)

13.30-13.45                                                   

Joanna BIERNACKA (PL): "Transfer!" by Jan Klata

13.45-14.00              

Petra ARDAI (HU/NL): Space Theatre Group and the Politics of the Personal

14.00-14.15

Olivier MOUGINOT (FR): A fiction Not Like the Others

14.15-14.30

Stuart YOUNG (NZ)-Hilary HALBA: Remodelling Reality: an Approach to Staging Verbatim Theatre.

14.30-14.45

Balázs VARGA (HU): The Naked Truth? Problems of Reality in Dogma 95 Cinema

coffee break

15.00-15.20

Jan ŠIMKO (SK): Heavy metal. Stories of workers of the Steal Factory in Košice (case study)

15.20-15.40

Jana SVOBODOVA (CZ) - Anna GRUSKOVÁ: 1989 - Window of Opportunity - Docudrama in Reverse Order (case Study)

15.40-16.00

Gianina CǍRBUNARIU (RO): Documents from the Romanian State Security Archives – Fiction and Reality (case study)

coffee break

16.15-17.00 Debate

Theatre aesthetics versus documentary theatre? A false contradiction? Thousand ways of staging documentary theatre