This chapter studies two examples of documentary theater on the twenty-first-century Turkish stage as adaptations of real events. An extension of political drama, documentary theater uses documents, interviews, media reports, and testimonies as evidence to investigate the undisclosed aspects of socio-political events. Working on such authentic material, it provides examples of adaptation, not of a particular source text, but a variety of archival sources that might offer an alternative interpretation and representation of controversial historical events by bringing past issues to daylight to draw attention to the miscarriages of justice in their treatment. The plays chosen for analysis within the chapter are Bilgesu Erenus’s Çağrı (2004) and Genco Erkal’s Sivas ’93 (2007). Both plays use documented material to investigate two seminal historical events in which numerous civilians were killed in provincial towns in Türkiye. Çağrı informs audiences about the 1938 Dersim events while Sivas ’93 investigates the Madımak incident in 1993 with testimonies that belong to the survivors as well as other documents. Adapting material related to two events from twentieth-century Turkish history, these two productions engage in foregrounding countermemory, contesting the dominant historical narratives concerning these events that are more powerful in shaping collective memory about the atrocities experienced by civilians at the time of these conflicts. The chapter focuses on these plays as examples of “history as adaptation” to discuss how rewriting history is useful in terms of providing a criticism of the establishment and subverting previous representations of these issues by the media.