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DIFFERENT THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF DEs — SURVEY OF LITERATURE happening”.“”° According to Davis this action evokes reason and imagination at the same time because of the extremity of the situation. The act of pouring the coffee out is a contradictory action, it portrays the soldiers on the one hand as workers outraged by their working conditions, but at the same time the fact that they are furious about murdering people because they cannot drink their coffee juxtaposes the value of the lives of the Jews being shot and the cup of coffee that is spilled. The act of connecting the two actions — drinking (and spilling) coffee and mass murder - is also quite disturbing, because many of us take part in one of the two, but suddenly our early morning beverage becomes the protagonist of one of history’s most notorious crimes. Davis points to the visual image created through the action in the play and claims that while “one member of the audience might be disturbed by the splashing of dark liquid across the stage and viscerally connect it with blood being spilled. Another might feel in this action an act of autonomy, of self-assertion”.*” Davis argues that Bond bypasses culture and ideology coded into the language by creating “the possibility to think with the eyes”.*” Besides doing a thorough survey of Bond’s theory, in his PhD thesis Amoiropoulos*® also analysis a Bond play’s rehearsal process by Big Brum Theatre in Education company. In his case study Amoiropoulos documents and reflects on the practical development of Bondian concepts in the rehearsal room to discuss how their implementation in process drama could be enhanced. I will now look at one moment from A Window" that is discussed in depth by Amoiropoulos, as this highlights all the important elements that he attributes to DEs. I will offer a short description of the full play as it is important to understand the specific moment discussed by Amoiropoulos, and I will also be referring to the play in my own analysis further on. All three scenes of A Window are set in room in a flat in a high-rise block, which has a chaise-longue, a wooden table and a chair in it, a door at the back and a window towards the audience which is not physically represented according to the stage directions. The first panel begins with Liz making her bed on the chaise-longue which upsets her partner, Richard, when he arrives after a long day out, looking for work. The two get into a quarrel about Liz moving out of the bedroom because she wants “a bit a’ quiet”.*° It turns out that Liz is upset because of a story she read in the newspaper about a mother blinding her own child, so that the child relies on her and stays with her all her life. Richard does not understand why they cannot sleep together because of 400 Davis: Imagining the Real, 133. 401 Ibid. 402 Ibid. 403 Amoiropoulos: Balancing Gaps. 404 Edward Bond: A Window, in Plays:9, London, Methuen Drama, 2011, 177-208. 405 Ibid., 181. + 101 +
