This paper is a wake-up call, reclaiming the place of the artistic and the aesthetic in theatre and drama education as its core experience. Drama and theatre educators need to remind themselves that although drama is now being viewed as a multileveled discourse, the true appeal and beauty of drama and theatre in education lies in its power to express the human mind and spirit via the captivating magic of theatre. The authors' basic claim is that the young field of drama/theatre education feels old because no one challenges the aesthetic language. She feels this is because the educators are stifled by applied drama and theatre that have so often put real obstacles in the way of broadening the horizon of the field by its expansion of the utilitarian function of theatre in the curriculum and beyond. (Contains 16 endnotes.)