summarize this introduction in a sentence: This article explores how students’ text understanding evolves through interaction in a drama-text-based theatre production. In most theatre productions, stage actors and directors collaboratively, in rehearsals, transform a drama text into a stage text (or “performance”). We conceptualize theatre as a cultural practice and its production as a goal-oriented and co-creative activity where the presentation of the stage text requires an elaborated joint text understanding. With an interest in the creative and collaborative work (NAME_1, Citation2015) achieved in and through theatre education, the overarching aim of this study is to illuminate how joint text understanding is established through social interaction in-role and out-of-role. A drama text can be understood in terms of layers of cultural meaning, for example, historical time periods, literary conventions, lexical issues, characters, and its central themes, whereas a stage text additionally can be understood in terms of its audio-spatial properties, for example, how scenes are presented through actions of the stage characters and objects on stage (cf. NAME_2, Citation1995). Our analytical interest is geared toward the interactional work and the means that are used in transitions of text understanding concerning characters, central themes, and stage objects. In other words, we explore text understanding in-the-making.

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