Ancient drama applications in education and interactive entertainment

This paper is the result of the co-authors’ transdisciplinary collaboration and practice (est. 2018) through which we sought to “answer questions that exist across multiple disciplines but apply the answers to [our] own fields.” (Holley, 2009: 25). We have embedded ourselves in each other’s classrooms, developed joint learning experiences, immersed ourselves in each other’s scholarship, and created new and original works together. Framing our collaboration and situating our work within the collective history of intersection between interactive entertainment and Ancient Greek drama has presented us with opportunities to learn and experiment with active learning methodologies, a process that has, in turn, transformed us as scholars-teachers and expanded our creative minds. This paper serves as a disciplinary boundary object— a supplement to our newest collective work, Enthralled, a game that accompanies Euripides’ Bacchae, and aims to enhance group reflection, explore perspective taking, decision-making in a democracy, and the fine line between fact and belief.