ABSTRACT
Drama is a collaborative group artform where people transform, act, and reflect upon the human condition. In drama, people are the instruments of inquiry. Stanislavski, the great Russian theatre director, made this very clear. ‘People’, he suggested, ‘generally do not know how to make use of the physical apparatus with which nature has endowed [them].’ The physical self is at the centre of a dramatic encounter and students in drama should be educated in how best to manipulate their ‘instrument’ (Stanislavski, 1949, p. 35).
