ABSTRACT
Like books and articles about dance and, to a lesser extent, the other arts, twentieth-century writing about drama in education is bedevilled by the polarisation between process and product. In drama, we might represent this gap in a particular way: it is between self-expression on the one hand, and theatre arts on the other. An Unattached Teacher for Creative Subjects in Suffolk and the author share a favourite theme, the magic box. The teacher gave the author a page of notes about her magic box lesson. The class was divided into small groups, then blank pieces of paper were handed out and all of them were asked to draw either something they would like to find in a box or something they would hate to find.
