b'T3 Journal: Issue 4 (2022) Editorial NoteT3, our festival of student-led performance, returned in full force in May and June 2022, with approximately thirty new shows. A photo from one of these showsGrowing, directed by Ellie OSullivan and Zoe Karlfeatures on the front cover. The image of the two performers, leaning on one another, reflects the content of this issue, which is the fourth since the T3 Journal began, pre-pandemic, in 2019.One of the themes this years student editors wanted to highlight was the return to the studiojoyous, mainly, if sometimes the source of anxiety and personal challenge. We therefore begin the journal with a series of reflections on practice, although as you read on, you will find that history, theory, and practice are often intertwined in writing by students across the various Drama modules. Indeed, even as live, in-person practice was suspended or curtailed in the last two years, other forms of practice, such as writing, continued, and this journal offers a showcase of the wide variety of writing produced by undergraduate students in the Drama department. Writing is also an embodied activity, a craft to be honed and often shared with others.These contributions reflect the work that students themselves have felt proud of, and the subjects that they have chosen to write on. Creative writing, written for perfor-mance, intersperses the more formal essays, dissertation extracts and critical analyses. The editorial team worked with authors on their submissionsrefining the language, making strategic cuts, tweaking sentences, and titlesso that the writing might reach a new audience and be read outside the context of assessment. Writing is rewriting, as the saying goes. Its an iterative process, which is why the best essays usually have more than one draft. Sometimes, as in this case of this journal, its a collaborative process too.It would be patronising not to mention that the return to the studio, and an embodied understanding of research through practice (as well as vice versa) has been important for the staff as well. Holly Coves dissertation extract suggests that Drama can be a re-hearsal for life, by which she means that it gives us access to imaginative embodiments of difficulty, otherness, and self that illuminate our way of being in the world. That exploration of difficulty in emotion is close to other forms of difficultyof understand-ing complexity, paradox, silences, histories. We can approach them through practice, as well as through reading and writing. All our academic publicationsundergraduate, postgraduate and beyondare filtered through this strange space of the studio.We hope you can feel this in the writing.Many thanks to this years editors, who represent all years across Drama and its com-bined programmes. As ever, it is a tall order which has been gracefully completed.Cathy and AdrianT3 Editors 2022 are Chloe Atkinson, Holly Cove, Max Leaver, Izzy Varey, Rebekah Wajed and Poppy Warren.Growing, Olivia Hollreiser and Kate Spalding. T3 Festival. Photo: Will Beards.4 5'