ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses that drama is a performing art in which dramatic action is expressed through the human person. The mind, body and voice are used to express thought and feeling which are experienced in the 'now' time of drama (that is in the present moment) but that recall the past and invoke the future. This might seem very much like what happens in ordinary life. However, what distinguishes drama is that there is an explicit aesthetic intent to use a heightened fictional social construct in which the experience is generated and contained. In other words, in order for drama to be drama it needs a structure that is recognisably dramatic in form. And in process drama, the experience held by the form will have an explicit learning intention. Whilst whole group improvisation with teacher in role lies at the heart of process drama, it is not necessarily always the most useful way of working in every instance.
