ABSTRACT
This chapter explores what happens when the teacher begins to function in director mode in the drama. In director mode the teacher strives to organise the various elements of the drama, that is objects, bodies, sound, colour, language, music, space and time, for 'significance'. In the theatre, the director's function is to coordinate most of the elements that contribute to the cumulative and overall impact of the spectacle or production in question. The director may, throughout the artistic process, be working closely with the playwright, actors, set, props and costume designers, lighting and sound designers. In process drama the teacher working in director mode takes on the responsibility for developing and coordinating many similar, corresponding elements as the drama is unfolding. The chapter demonstrates work that used drama to teach literatures in English in a Caribbean secondary school.
