ABSTRACT
This chapter reports how social worker Angelique Doludag and Theatre maker Kai Tuchmann have produced the Documentary Theatre Performance A Room of Our Own, which was staged 7 November 2013 at Bangalore’s Goethe-Institute. It especially discusses the dramaturgical approach of this work which utilised Virgina Woolf’s essay ‘A Room of One’s Own’, in order to explore gender roles and -relations in India’s rapidly transforming society. Central to this dramaturgical approach have been the formation of a ‘dramaturgical collective’ (a concept linked to the practice of Erwin Piscator) and Tuchmann’s concept of Documentary Theatre as a mode of alternative historiography. Throughout this chapter both concepts are explained closely in relation to the practical process of performance creation.
