ABSTRACT
The great degree of naturalism of the language in the extract intensifies the incongruity even more. Incongruity, then, refers to the bringing together of discordant or disparate elements in drama. The incongruity derives from the mix of time contexts; modern technical resources and conventions are used to investigate events at the time they happened, using a modern perspective. A drama documentary on the Fire of London supposedly made two or three weeks after the event but using modern resources can use the documentary evidence from the time, such as diary accounts, letters, public records, contemporary prints, to create the programme. Unless the drama project is undertaken with a conscious awareness that a convention is being used, pupils and teacher are likely to be inhibited by the mix of time scales. It is helpful to establish that a modern language idiom is perfectly appropriate.
