In my thesis I discuss the issues of autobiographical narrative and autofiction and the possibility of their transfer to performance arts, using the drama texts of Simona Semenič and Falk Richter as examples. In the first part, I lay out the theoretical foundations of both autobiography and autofiction, and highlight the places where the two concepts are linked or differ. I then juxtapose the aspects of both that I believe can also function in drama and theatre with both traditional and modern notions of drama. Questioning the boundaries of fiction and reality, reflecting on both the self-creation and the process of writing, and being aware of the constructed nature of the story and the unreliability of memory, are the elements of autofiction that I then identify in the selected texts and performances jaz, žrtev. (i, victim.; 2007) and The Silence (2023). I also wonder whether autofiction is only a current trend in contemporary theatre or what exactly legitimizes its existence and analysis in the field of theatre studies.
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