As a practical tool, "fabels" form part of the process of engaging with a play-text undertaken by a company when mounting a production of a play. A "fabel" is a piece of creative writing, usually made by a dramaturg or the director, that summarizes the plot of a play in such a way as to emphasize the production's interpretation of that play-text. It is produced in order to make clear the company's "particular way" of understanding and rendering the story. In this respect, it is related to the concept of Gestus (insofar as this renders an action and an attitude towards that action simultaneously); a "fabel" indicates the sequence of gestic episodes that constitute the dramatic or theatrical narrative.