DramaTherapy.org.uk
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Dramatherapy helps to form a bridge between the art form of theatre and the healing power of drama itself. It is about creating drama and fiction as a way to helping people to understand themselves in new ways. The dramatherapy group, like the rehearsal space, offers permission to play, free from restraint of text and performance whilst also acting as a container for personal feelings. This aids spontaneity and the discovery of both personal freedom and boundaries.
Drama provides a creative medium and space in which to temporarily escape the confines of everyday reality. Within a safe and permissible environment, it provides a way to extend existing boundaries, where in making dramatic statements through metaphor or symbolic images we can gain insight. Through the re-enactment and exaggeration of our inhabited roles, we can begin to recognise which are real and appropriate to our lives now, and adapt them in a spontaneous manner.
Play is an essential part of Dramatherapy, for the imagination allows us to play our way into relationships. The real world still exists whilst we journey inward to explore the multiple realities of our lives, but when we return from our journey of creative discovery, our perception will have altered which allows for greater strength and freedom when dealing with emotional problems. In the inspiring words of Viola Spolin: (Founder of Theatre Games).
