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The "Ideal Spectator": Dramatic Chorus, Collective Creation, and Curriculum
Prendergast, Monica
Alberta Journal of Educational Research, v50 n2 p141-150 Sum 2004
It is always ourselves we see on the stage.? we struggle to make human meaning and sense from what we see before us. (O'Neill, 1995, p. 76) Theatre is the enactment of possible worlds. It is performed in a middle space owned by neither author nor reader.? It is a space for negotiation. It is the middle place of the curriculum. (Grumet, 1998, p. 149) The chorus are free to support, ignore, question or reject the actions of the central characters, reorienting our response to the rhetoric as they do. They compel us to experience the drama as an ever-changing dynamic relationship, and not as the unfolding of the inevitable. (Rehm, 1992, p. 61)
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