Drama highlights what we recognize to be true of our existence as human agents in general, the fact that our self-awareness is always of a moment of transition, as things move into an irrecoverable past and shape an unseen future. And, while we may watch a drama whose plot we know perfectly well, so that the outcome is not in doubt, we shall still be attending with the same intensity to see better how this moment opens and closes possibilities for the next (and beyond), hoping as we attend to see something of how it is that people ‘go on’, follow what is said and done. We are hoping to understand human agency and interaction, hoping to see more clearly how and why this leads to that and so to become aware of larger possibilities for our own ‘going on’ in understanding. The dramatist or novelist proposes a pattern of temporal movement and transformation which I can recognize as (in principle) like what I am aware of living in. In attending to this unfolding pattern, I am assisted to attend to my own narrative — perhaps to recover aspects of that story which I have ignored or buried, perhaps to ‘read’ my actions or those of others with new questions, new suspicions, so that my decisions and in particular my own utterances are formed by larger and more various factors than hitherto.