In Search of an Intermedial Drama Pedagogy

This essay focuses on the response of drama pedagogy to the contemporary developments in intermediality and the hybridity of media in performance contexts. Drama is becoming increasingly difficult to define as a medium as practitioners experiment with a myriad of new media, combining live and digital processes in theatre. The possibilities and tensions of this evolution have been well documented over the last forty years or more and the research field of intermedial theory has grown rapidly. What, however, are the challenges and opportunities that intermediality creates for drama pedagogy and what theories, methodologies, possibilities and concerns have been proposed to date? Has the response been concerted and wide-ranging or is this territory under explored?