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P3: I think he is searching for his life. He wants to hold the strings in his own hand,
so his life is not controlled by his father. He wants to own it.
Clearly, the framing worked in various ways with different participants.
Some reflected on the impact of the framing in the focus groups. “When
we were creating the scenes or watching them this question of owning your
life wasn’t so central for me. I wasn’t thinking about it then. Now I can see
how they connect to every scene”. Framing thinking by making the Centre
explicit worked on different levels. While in the previous quote itis an aid for
retrospective reflection, for this other participant it facilitated coming to new
understanding.
This phrase ‘owning your life’, for me it meant marking your aim and doing
everything in your life to achieve that, so you have a clear goal and that there are
no mess ups. This is what I was looking for in the scenes. But I realised all this
doesn’t just depend on us, but also on other people and the circumstances as well.
This was really interesting for me.”
In the case of Wild Child participants reflected positively to the partnership
offered in the frame:
What this did was that I had this feeling that we can’t say anything wrong, that
something comes out of all the ideas and thoughts. And if the atmosphere makes
you feel that everything is useful then people start saying even better ideas."
This framing of the participants gave the inclusion of dramaturgical
structures and concepts legitimacy and participants also saw themselves
as creators and began looking at the process they had gone through as an
artistic construct. “It’s fascinating how much you can build out of nothing.
We just started from a seed and so much came out of it. After an experience
like that you just feel richer”? wrote one participant in the questionnaire.
There were many reflections on the theatre form: “what are the tools that
‘blow the fuse’ in a scene? What can make me think about the reasons for
things I see happening?”.’° Some questions touch on basic question related
to theatre: “Is there such a thing as a ‘good drama theory’?””™ or “Is it possible
65 V2_56A_verbatim transcript.
6% F_56A.
97 Ibid.
68 E Wa
699 Q Wa.
700 Q Wb.
71 Q Wa.
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