The Process of Drama: Negotiating Art and

An original and invaluable model of the elements of drama in context. O'Toole demonstrates how dramatic meaning emerges, shaped by its multiple contexts, and illuminates the importance of all participants to the dramatic process. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information . Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk .

Introduction

1

(1)

Preliminary definitions

1

(12)

The elements of dramatic form

13

(35)

The dramatic contexts

48

(20)

The real context

48

(1)

The context of the medium

48

(2)

The context of the setting

50

(1)

The fictional context

51

(1)

Contextual frames

51

(2)

Drama in education: choosing a context

53

(2)

Drama as service

55

(2)

Service as subversion

57

(2)

Drama as subject

59

(4)

Issues and contexts

63

(1)

Flexibility of fictional context

64

(2)

Analogies

66

(2)

Role

68

(27)

Role in real life

68

(1)

Role-play and training

69

(4)

Role-play and games

73

(1)

Role-play and contracts

74

(4)

Role-play in theatre in education

78

(2)

Role-play and self-in-role

80

(2)

Simple role-play

82

(3)

Individualising role-play

85

(3)

Role-play, negotiation and learning

88

(7)

Purpose and focus

95

(37)

General purposes outside the context

95

(4)

The teacher's specific purposes

99

(2)

Children's purposes

101

(2)

Focussing: translating purposes into dramatic action

103

(6)

Framing

109

(5)

Purposes and tasks within the fictional context

114

(9)

Purpose and focus in theatre in education

123

(9)

Tension, time and audience

132

(39)

Defining tension

132

(1)

Tension and time

133

(7)

Tension and audience

140

(7)

Audience and time

147

(2)

Tension, power and control

149

(3)

Tensions of the task

152

(7)

Tensions of relationship

159

(4)

Tensions of mystery, secrecy and surprise

163

(3)

The tension of metaxis

166

(5)

Location: renegotiating expectations

171

(14)

A place of special significance

171

(2)

Renegotiating expectations in adult theatre

173

(3)

Processual implications

176

(6)

Location in drama in education

182

(3)

The participant group

185

(14)

Negotiating contracts in theatre

185

(2)

Contracts in youth theatre

187

(4)

Contracts in theatre in schools

191

(1)

Contracts in drama in education

192

(7)

Language, gesture and action

199

(17)

Language is polyfunctional

199

(1)

From context to text

200

(1)

Functions of dramatic text

201

(10)

Multiple framing

211

(5)

Negotiating meaning

216

(20)

Aesthetic meaning

217

(1)

Mood and aesthetic meaning

218

(2)

Dramatic symbols and aesthetic meaning

220

(1)

Transforming meaning for use

221

(2)

Meaning and ideology

223

(3)

Unpredicted meanings

226

(1)

Official and unofficial meanings

227

(5)

Symbol, context and meaning

232

(4)

Notes

236

(18)

Index

254

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The Process of Drama: Negotiating Art and Meaning

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