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FIRST CYCLE The constraint of not having access to parts of the island, creating an unknown segment, was deliberately structured into the lesson to build the expectation that was felt as ‘reading my mind’ by the participants. We have already seen three different aspects of the relationship of the participants to the narrative, starting out from whether they could influence the narrative. It is useful to differentiate between the participants feeling they influenced the story and them having ownership of the drama. The third aspect related to participants feeling that the narrative’s logic reflects their expectations and interests can be linked with the concept of internal coherence in LTD. The relationship of these concepts would be worth researching further, I have not focussed on them in this inquiry. SPECIFIC SITE — THE SPACE AND ITS MEANINGS: Bond explains that Site B “conveys to the audience the play’s specific sites”.*° The play’s specific sites contain the specific space that they are realised in which can be used for meaning making. In LTD participants can also take part in creating the space, and I will analyse how this related to using the space for meaning making. The space itself became a central issue in the first series, where we started Children by building the abandoned place by the train tracks, the meeting space of the young people. The group designed a vacated station building and also outside play and community areas that the children in the fiction could have created for themselves. “It is great that they have a place where they can be on their own. It is like Szent Istvan Park®” for us, where me and my mates get together. A lot of us go there, but this is more exciting because it is in a hidden spot”.°° I had deliberately chosen to make it a secluded place — in line with the Bond play - to portray the Centre of the drama: the relationship between children and the adult world. However, I was surprised by the extent to which the location became central for the group. The space itself became a focus point and it triggered their imagination. One girl created a mock-up of the space, others shared stories of experiences: “I really imagined it because I have been to a railway station with my grandma. It was bigger, but there was no one else around. There was only a guy sitting at the bar like this”. Two reasons were mentioned for their interest in such a space, one was that “we go there and we can do whatever we like” and the other one was that “it is quite mysterious. You don’t know what will happen there”.°” 618 Bond: Modern Drama, 10. 6% Szent István Park is a fairly posh park with a big playground, a highly frequented meeting point for people living in the up-class Ujlipötväros district near the school. 620 F Gl. 64 Ibid. 62 Ibid.
