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CHAPTER FIVE: DATA ANALYSIS 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. + 216 +
