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FACILITATING ‘BEING’ IN THE SITUATION — STRUCTURES USED IN LTD AND BONDIAN DRAMA present reality need to be recognizable for those watching or participating. This is especially important in relation to the problems engaged in in the fictional world. The central problem examined through the play should be related to the elements that connect Site A and Site B. The Centre has been defined as the essential confrontation behind the dramatic problem,” so the previous question can be developed further to include the Centre as a part of Site B as the following: In what forms are the essential conflicts of our current socio-cultural reality present in the specific situations of the story? The analysis can also start from looking at the current reality and locating those essential confrontations or contradictions that would be useful to engage in within the fiction. They then need to be included in the situations of the story through specific incidents or ‘givens’ of the fiction. Site C is related to how these events are presented through actions, images and the use of objects to open the essential conflicts in a way that the audience, or in the case of a drama lesson the participants, can make meaning of them within the story but independently of the explanations that the story’s narrative provides. While Site B relates more to what is being explored, Site C is concerned with how it is being explored. Site D highlights the purpose of the dramatic exploration and emphasises that the situations need to connect with the imaginative processes of the individual audience members or participants. The drama teacher or director needs to take into consideration her audience as individuals who are members of a group in both an educational and a theatrical setting. The concept of Site as a whole provides a logic for the actors and the audience to engage in a fiction world, because that is connected to the social reality we live in but provides specific situations and events through which contradictions of the social reality can be explored. The concept of Site can be linked to the concept of ‘angle of connection from LTD that refers to the connection between the fictional situation and the real-life situation of the participants of the lesson. If employed in an educational setting Site can be perceived as a wider framework that incorporates the ‘angle of connection’, and can be used in the planning process of a drama lesson as well. Situations are the basic building blocks of drama. Stories are presented through situations and the concept of Site can also be realised through them. Both Bondian and LT drama enhance engagement with problems through situations. I discuss these in the next section. 3497 496 Bond: Letters 3, 166. “7 Davis: Imagining the Real, 78.
