The reader will have noticed that we have deliberately avoided the battle-worn territorial cartography of trying to define the boundaries of both/either drama and/or theatre, in favour of what we believe are much more usefully blurred edges, and ambiguous, even paradoxical perimeters. However, so that we’ve got something to talk about, our map does have some common features. Words like acting, performing and role-play come to mind, and have been often used. It’s something to do with presenting human images in public, something to do with exploring relationships and feelings, but it’s also something to do with cognitive models and fictional situations, it’s something to do with the body and sensory and kinaesthetic activities, something to do with aesthetics and something to do with play and playfulness. Well, mostly … sort-of. Oh yes, and people do it by forming, presenting and responding and sometimes all three simultaneously. No wonder it shape-shifts. Does it have a basic, proper shape at all? And what shapes might it assume in the future, and why? Time to call on Proteus’s other magic capacity, twist his tail a bit and see if he’ll foretell something of where we might be heading.
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