The paper outlines two different approaches to the study of drama and theatre (i.e. of performing arts in general): the first, which is also the most widely used at different levels of the Slovene education system, studies drama and theatre in the context of literature. This type of analysis concentrates chiefly on the dramatic text and gives only secondary importance to its potential staging. Furthermore, since it explores mainly the relation between text and performance, it focuses
primarily on dramatic theatre. The second approach analyses drama and theatre in the context of performance studies, seeing the play as an element of culture and (self-) performance, as a communication strategy that is present at different levels of everyday life. In its interdisciplinary perspective (drama and theatre theory, anthropology, sociology, psychology of creativity, arts therapies), it studies performing arts as a specific mode of performance in culture.
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