Many could not see why on earth actors should have anything to do with it. In the UI(, however, 'educational' tends to be used rather more loosely as an umbrella term but is none the less often distinguished from the more narrow and restrictive 'didactic'. All theatre can of course, at some level or other, be thought of as broadly educational; but in Britain it has been possible to speak of 'theatre with an educational purpose' without quite the same pejorative