THE PERFORMATIVITY OF DOCUMENTARY THEATRE: BORIS LIJEŠEVIĆ`S PLAY PLODNI DANI (FERTILE DAYS)
THE PERFORMATIVITY OF DOCUMENTARY THEATRE: BORIS LIJEŠEVIĆ`S PLAY PLODNI DANI (FERTILE DAYS)

Summary/Abstract: Over the past two decades, theatre practitioners across Europe and beyond have turned to documentary modes of playwriting and performance-making to confront new socio-political realities. This has led to a vast range of performance styles, ways of working and modes of intervention in varied sites of theatrical production. As a form of documentary theatre verbatim aims at what is understood as a true and authentic presentation of problems within the public sphere, which are, inevitably, reflected in private lives of ordinary people. The paper focuses on Boris Liješević’s play Plodni dani (Fertile Days) that was staged in Atelje 212 (17th March 2012) which has for the first time problematized the subject of marital sterility on stage and the battle of couples who cannot achieve parenthood through their offspring.This paper explores the viability and resonance of various performative strategies specific to documentary/verbatim modes.

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