3 December 9.00 am - 1.00 pm

WHY? WHY NOT? Reception and Functions of Documentary Theatre STATEMENTS

chair: Andrea TOMPA

9.15-9.30 An Introduction of the Central European Cultural Institute

09.30-09.45

Catherine DECASTEL (FR): Can the Effects of Some Documentary Theatre Projects in Stimulating Certain Social Processes Be Visible?

09.45-10.00                                      

Natalia YAKUBOVA (HU/RUS): Document versus Postmemory: Controversies of Dealing with the Past in the Contemporary Central European Theatre

10.00-10.15

Iulia POPOVICI (RO): Mistrusting One Another: How Documentary Theatre Reads the Community

10.15-10.30

Ildikó LŐKÖS (HU): Staging Politics in Hungary

coffee break

10.45-11.00   

Annabel SOUTAR (CAN):

Documentary Theatre: Timing Is  Everything

11.00-11.20 Anna LENGYEL (HU):

Word for Word Project

11.20-11.40

Mikhail DURNENKOV and Ruslan MALIKOV (RU): Ignorance as a Research Method in Documentary Projects

coffee break

12.00-12.45 DEBATE                       

What are the obstacles in the reception of documentary performances?