Abstract
This talk adduces a testimony about the attempt to apply (original) Latin theatre into Latin teaching. This is seen to have been realized by two groups working under different circumstances.
The first of these is a group of university students and alumni of Classics' (Charles University - Faculty of Arts) who perform original Latin plays; the other is a collection of groups of students of the Prague Academic Gymnasium who act out simple dialogues intended for performance. In this manner they have an opportunity to enlarge their vocabulary and to try and think in Latin.
The experience of this dramatisation is compared with the original principles formulated by John Amos Comenius, who first conceived the notion of the schola ludus.