Reflections on 'living through' and 'distancing': a critical essay related to Heathcote's and Brecht's poetics - NATIONAL DRAMA

Reflections on ‘living through’ and ‘distancing’: a critical essay related to Heathcote’s and Brecht’s poetics

This scholarly essay problematises uses of the term living through drama in current educational drama field literature, by linking it to Dorothy Heathcote’s application of the term, and to concepts of distancing, in arts theory and more specifically to the theatre of Bertolt Brecht.

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