Handle with care: contains poets now! Remediation as drama pedagogical method

In the laboratory at the Nordic Drama Boreale, we experimented with remediation
using Mette Hegnhøj’s book Ella is My Name: Do You Want to Buy It? This article
unpacks remediation as a method for inspiration in drama pedagogical practice. We
found that different aesthetic forms of expression contribute to a synergy, providing
an experience of ‘entering the book’. We also discovered that remediation can
promote the poetic in teaching and that the process of remediating from book to
drama occurs at a crossover between performance and drama education, where
the participants are both spectators and performers. The forms of experience and
investigation of remediation in the laboratory can thus contribute to drama pedagogical
methodology through the incorporation of new and experimental books, theatrical
forms and interactive media.