This paper deals with the methodology and typology of the theatre production reconstructions as a prerequisite for research and theatre-making. Based on selected theories, it defines boundaries and stages of production process. The role of the reconstruction of individual phases of production is illustrated by a seminar assignment in teacher training (reconstruction of the production of Pavel Kyrmezer’s Komedie česká o bohatci a Lazarovi (The Czech Comedy about a Money-bag and Lazarus, VŠMU, 1964) and examples of the application of the reconstruction in Slovak theatre context: an archaeological reconstruction of production poetics (project Education Through Theatre – Antigona, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, 2011 – 2012) and an update on the basis of an archeologically reconstructed text Hra o svätej Dorote (Play about St. Dorothy, Slovak National Theatre, 2004). Based on examples from the history of Slovak theatre and work with classic texts (Ján Chalupka, Ján Palárik), a typology of approaches to drama texts is created, from the reconstruction to the meta-reconstruction and auto-reconstruction of a drama text.