Hills like white elephants: a drama conventions approach to short-story

Abstract

The article is an exploration and analysis of a process drama workshop based on Ernest Hemingway’s short-story Hills Like White Elephants (1927). It elucidates a drama conventions approach to a drama structure based on a literary text. Qualified by the question: How can thematic discovery within the short story, and attention to artistic form in the developing process drama, be realised through a dramatic conventions approach?, the article draws on both educational drama and theatre studies literature in relation to conventions, as well as sources related to text analysis and process drama practice.