The play by M. G. Rozovsky “Father, Mother, Me and Stalin” (Theater at Nikitsky Gate, 2017) in the context of the documentary theater
The article reveals the problem of the interaction of documentary and non-documentary (drama) theater. It examines the brief background of the formation of the documentary theater, as well as the reason for the difficulty of concretizing its concept. As an example, the author considers the play of the director Mark Rozovsky “Father, Mother, Me and Stalin”, reveals the issues of using documentary materials in the drama theater and the problem of the conflict of documentary sources. The article analyzes the forms of such principles of the documentary theater as “verbatim”, “zero-position” and methods for their implementation in a drama performance. Comparing the documentary works of M. G. Patlasov, E. Gremina and the TEATR.DOC performances, the author traces the artistic techniques borrowed from the documentary theater, as well as the methods of their implementation in a dramatic setting