%0 Journal Article %T Performance of reconciliation: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa as theatre of justice and legitimation of political system %A Bandov %A Goran %A Filipovi£¿ %A Antonio %J - %D 2017 %X Sa£¿etak This paper is giving an overview of the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa through a thesis of congruence between its protocols and elements of theatrical performance. After an introductory survey of the historical context of apartheid, it offers an analysis of TRC¡¯s work through two roles it had ¨C the role of a legal instrument, and the one of a tool for facing the past and producing the national historical narrative. This paper analyses the relation between theatrical and performative characteristics, and concepts of transitional and restorative justice; the influence of elements of performance is also studied in TRC¡¯s effect on creating national narratives, which are used to legitimate new legal and political order %K Truth and Reconciliation Commission %K Theatre %K Apartheid %K Restorative Justice %K Legitimation Narratives %K Dealing with The Past %K South Africa. %U https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=331162