Defense of the artistic research project “Documentary Theatre: Creative Methods of Verbatim”

On December 18–19, 2019, the defense of Loreta Vaskova artistic doctorate project “Documentary Theatre: Creative Methods of Verbatim” will take place at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Artistic Supervisors: Assoc. Prof. Yana Ross, Prof. Dr. Ramunė Marcinkevičiūtė. Copies of the research paper and its summary are available at the library of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (Gedimino pr. 42).

Free entrance.

Defense of the creative part of the artistic doctorate project
December 18, 2019, 6 p.m.
LMTA Building 1: Balcony Theatre (Gedimino Ave. 42, Vilnius)

PROGRAM

Documentary Performances
“Personalas”
“Šimtas metų vaikystės”
“Supeherojai”
“Ramybės stotelės”

Defense of the artistic research paper
December 19, 2019, 10 a.m.
LMTA Building 1: Juozas Karosas Hall (Gedimino Ave. 42, Vilnius)

CHAIR OF THE DEFENSE BOARD OF ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECT – Prof. Nelė Klimienė-Savičenko

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD:
Prof. Aidas Giniotis (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre)
Assoc. Prof. Zane Kreicberga (Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ramunė Balevičiūtė-Liugienė (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre)
Prof. Dr. Rasa Vasinauskaitė (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre)

REVIEWERS:

Prof. Darius Meškauskas
Prof. Dr. Aušra Martišiūtė-Linartienė

Abstract

Documentary Theatre: Creative Methods of Verbatim examines verbatim – one of the most popular forms of documentary theatre. To create verbatim performances, theatre directors, actors and dramaturgs use interviews based on a specific subject. This type of performance emerged in 1970’s at the Victoria Theatre, a fringe theatre in England. In the twenty-first century, the definition of verbatim became more flexible and this artistic form began to change. As an example, one can take the use of headphones in acting, or headphone verbatim, as well as verbatim musical.
The scholarship that looks at verbatim theatre fails to thoroughly analyse the diversity of its contemporary forms. As a result, the research object of this doctoral thesis is a selection of contemporary verbatim playtexts, which allows the author of Documentary Theatre: Creative Methods of Verbatim to distinguish and define five main types of verbatim plays: pure, non-pure, mixed, semi-verbatim and quasi-verbatim. These verbatim types are then examined based on performances of Staff (2016) and A Hundred Years of Childhood (2018), both created by the author of this thesis, and her experience during international workshops and internships.