ABSTRACT
As an art form, drama has considerable advantages over music or the visual arts by criteria of accessibility. There is an immediacy to its practice. There are no scales to be learned or arpeggios to be practised, we can begin creating material straight away. Drama’s language is simply the language of social experience - what it Teels like’ to be alive - borrowed and fashioned for other purposes. So it’s easily accessible to those who lack professional arts training. We can claim, reasonably enough, that everyone has a basic proficiency in its gram mar. Everyone ‘improvises’ from the moment they get out of bed. We all feel pain, experience joy, and learn to ‘act a part’ .
