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Confessions – Staged Confessions of Actors with Specific Needs

BROŽEK HOLBEINOVÁ, Zuzana

Basic information

Original name

Confessions – Staged Confessions of Actors with Specific Needs

Edition

Divadelní konference JAMU 2025: Art of Experience, Galerie TIC, Brno, 2025

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Presentations at conferences

Field of Study

60403 Performing arts studies

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

Marked to be transferred to RIV

No

Organization unit

Theatre Faculty

Keywords in English

Theatre; actor; specific needs; possibilities; limits

Tags

International impact
Changed: 1/4/2026 00:27, Mgr. Jana Kořínková, Ph.D.

Abstract

In the original language

Confession was created as a practical outcome of specific research that dealt with the sensory and invisible specific needs of professional actors. In the production, actors with inborn and acquired specific needs tell their stories about their journey to theatre, the obstacles and struggles they had to and wanted to face in order to succeed. The aim was not only to bring the individual experiences of each actor into focus, but also to create a theatrical format that combines documentary accounts, original acting and performative elements. The conference paper is a reflection on production-making and the possibilities and limits of self-reflection on one’s own story in an aesthetic form. How are personal accounts transformed when they become a theatrical work? And can theatre contribute to change in more than just aesthetic terms?