Fiction Theatre - Experience As Social and Pedagogical Practice

This book aims to show how a specific form of documentary research, founded in a theatre-making method labelled "real fiction," can be utilised in drama education contexts, such as classrooms and performance spaces. It introduces this process through an exploration of theatre-making practice, based on the author's experience, then applies the method in a drama classroom. Through this process, it reveals the value of utilising practice-based drama methods in education, revealing new ways of teaching drama through praxis inquiry. The book specifically applies 'real fiction' practice to the issue of social labelling in education. In this sense, it aims to challenge the use of labelling language in social and educational contexts. This is done through the process of utilising 'real fiction' monologue writing practice to explore labels, their meaning and operation, in the lives of a sample group of young people. One of the objectives of the book is to show how the documentary theatre practice of 'real fiction' can be used to influence and transform the social and cultural lives of young people.