ABSTRACT
'Drama is a social art where people are arid do, and other people may see them doing and being.' For a long time views about educational drama seemed to polarise into two camps: in one camp were those who saw it as something which inevitably led to presentation of material; in the other, those who saw such presentation as an unrelated activity, even at odds with the 'essence' of 'Good Drama'. The school play is both a 'presentation' and a 'production': it's a product, coming at the end of a lengthy process; the building blocks which go to make it up are, effectively, a series of presentations. Most people have some memory of dramatic performance in their school days and it is usually an experience they remember vividly, occasionally as something painful but, more frequently, as something pleasurable and fun.
