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Concerning the school dramaturgy, usually we are focusing on the themes and less in scenographic demands and if these demands can be the starting point of new school play. Scenography testifies a certain kind of communication between the spectacle and its audience. In ancient Greek theatre, action must took place in a place where every member of the audience could see and hear, transforming in an artistic event democracy and its collective habits of seeing, listening, arguing and ruling. In a school environment, if we are aiming to the inclusion of all the members of a school community, then the choice of where this performance will take place is a consideration that will precede the selection of an existing play or before the writing/devising of a new play text. This paper presents how a new school play is written to serve a totally new scenography inextricably linked to the performance space and the actions of the student-actors.
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Ilia Lakidou
Dr. Ilia Lakidou is a theatrologist and a writter. She taugh theatre education in private and public schools for 20 years. From 2017 she is member of Teaching and Laboratory Staff at the Department of Theatre Studies, School of Philosophy, University of Athens.She teaches courses in the History of Scenography, Theatre Architecture and Costume Design, as well as in Drama and Theatre in Education. Her plays for school performances are published in the series “School Stage” of Kapa Publishing House. She is member of the Laboratory of Research and Documentation of Modern Greek Theatre ( Department of Theatre Studies, NKUA).
