ABSTRACT
In the Introduction I proposed that all art is playful behaviour. Like all play, art operates between two polarities, the urge to explore and the urge to control-between freedom and the testing or breaking of rules, and confinement and the making of rules. Both are always operative, and part of the source of the pleasure which is found in play is the tension which exists between the two. These polarities are not unrelated to the continuum that exists between process and product in drama.
