Based on real event theatre. In a search of artistic way to stage documental facts

Abstract

How can theatre make sense of and articulate personal, political and social crises? What are the professional approaches, and the creative and aesthetic ways of making an ethical and contemporary performance, without speculation or disruption of the facts from real events. The main topic of this report – how to built theatrical reality from documents – is based on examples of the performance “Nordost. Fairytale about Destruction” based on Torsten Buchsteiner’s play “Nordost”.