Oldal 68 [68]
OCR
SUMMARY: POSSIBLE FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS OF LIVING THROUGH DRAMA drama is needed to deal with our ideologically distorted vision”.”” The territory that needs to be explored further is: how can drama be used in creating gaps in dominant social narratives, that define our understanding of events surrounding us, and that help participants form their own understanding of situations from within the story? The term narrative is used here in a wide sense, to cover not only stories but those accounts and explanations of social occurrences that often become accepted as ‘reality’. The LTD practices relying on a strong ‘being’ element offer possibilities to create these gaps. Neelands??® points out that the conventions approach is based on Brechtian distancing techniques and relies strongly on language based reflection and a rational understanding of the problems investigated. Distancing takes participants out of the fiction to reflect on it using the reality as the reference point of reflection. The nature of the understanding used as the reference points is unquestioned. The MoE approach to drama employs a fictional frame to distance the problems explored. The attitude of ‘experts’ offered to participants produces a particular stance through which participants engage with the problems the fiction offers. The aim of this approach is not the questioning of values but providing motivation and scaffolding for incorporating subject oriented learning into the fiction of the drama. Hence, I rely on those LTD practices that aim at creating possibilities for ‘being’ and exploring the crisis encountered from within the fiction. What to Develop Within Living Through Drama? In my research lessons I explore the incorporation of Bondian structures and concepts into an LTD framework with the aim of facilitating participants of the drama to create gaps in meaning, moments that question or unhinge dominant social narratives, in living through improvisations within the story. The survey of the field of LTD offered the following aspects that the research drama lessons can be based on: a) Qualities of narratives: ¢ Crisis happening to the roles offered to participants + Social constraints and norms clashing with basic human needs contributing to the crisis e Crisis producing clash of values within the individual roles e Strong connection between reality of participants and the fictional world 225 Ibid. 226 Neelands: Mirror, Dynamo or Lens.
