Drama is among the most misunderstood and most abused subjects in secondary schools in Guyana. At one end of the spectrum is the real progress made in the increasing number of schools offering the subject at CXC – at both levels, CSEC (Theatre Arts) and CAPE (Performing Arts). But at the other end is the misconception: the lack of understanding what it is, leading to its relegation in the curriculum as purely decorative at best, but at worst as inferior, as an ennui in the school’s administration, a trifling obsession that gets in the way of real learning, a mere past-time and unnecessary.
