ABSTRACT
This book sets out to investigate the notion of process in drama, with particular reference to the genre which is known by its practitioners, mainly in Europe, the UK, Canada and Australia, as ‘drama in education’. However, this is a book about the art form of drama, rather than education. One of the main ideas in the book is that drama is not literature, words on a page. That is just a playscript, and has the same relationship to drama as a score has to music. Drama itself happens, and never accidentally;1 it is a dynamic event which is always part of its context. Since schools form an important part of the context in which this genre usually happens, schooling practices and educational ideas and structures do feature prominently, as a background to the aesthetic.
