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FIRST CYCLE Site C — How Can Components Be Used to Open Gaps? Edward Bond emphasizes that DEs can only be created by the actors in action, which means that the structures studied here can enhance their creation but finally it depends on the actors, or in the case of classroom drama the participants, to create them. Site C “conveys the play to the audience”*° it is about what the actions are, how the words are said, how the objects are used, and so on. In a LTD context the focus is on the behaviour of the participants in different improvised situations. I will discuss two concepts from Bondian theory here, Enactment and Cathexis. ENACTMENT: Bond argues that actors need to focus on the situation and explore it rather than convey a specific interpretation of the situation. He calls this mode of being Enactment, which is crucial in conveying the situation and leaving the meaning making to the audience. Cooper states that “Enactment in a Bond play is very close to ‘being’ in role”? in a process drama. I am going to examine some moments from the first cycle to look at the ‘acting behaviour’ of participants in the drama lessons. I evaluated answers to the questions ‘what was the most important moment for you in the series?’ and ‘what did you enjoy the most in the series?’ filled in by 12 participants®* of The Tribe series. I present the results in the table below, highlighting those elements that were clearly individual or whole group living through improvisations. Only ‘making the phones’ and ‘finding out the tribe’s name’ are not improvisations, ‘everything’ definitely includes chunks of improvisations as well, but I only count the specifically living through moments in the next analysis. Table 3. Improvisations Meeting | Bath’s When we When Finding | Making | Everyby the interro- | were in the | we were | out the the thing rock gation | temple inrole | tribe’s phones (LT) (LT) (LT) (LT) name Most . 5 4 0 0 1 0 2 important Most exciting 2 2 1 3 0 2 Altogether: 7 6 1 3 1 2 4 69 Edward Bond: Directing The Edge, unpublished Email to Jerome Hankins, Personal communication, 23 March, 2017. 630 Bond: Modern Drama, 10. 61 Bond: Directing The Edge. 632 Cooper: Re-visiting the process drama, 158. As I ran out of time in the last lesson participants took the questionnaires home. Only 12 from the 18 participants brought it back when I went back to collect them. 633 + 189 +
