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, and 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 way...

Citizens, political theorists, and politicians alike insist that political or partisan motives get in the way of real democracy. Real democracy, we are convinced, is embodied by an ability to form collective judgments in the interest of the whole. The Rhetorical Surface of Democracy: How Deliberative Ideals Undermine Democratic Politics, by Scott Welsh, argues instead that it is our easy rejection of political motives, individual interests, and the rhetorical pursuit of power that poses th...