ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author defines dramatherapy as the use of drama as a therapeutic tool. We seem to be bound to the idea that medicine must be unpleasant to be any good and the thought of having fun presupposes that dramatherapy is not an 'in-depth' therapy but an activity simply to pass the time. Drama is about extending boundaries of time and place as far as they can go and our emotional responses to them. In the process, drama can make use of other art forms: music, painting, dance, sculpture. The conventional idea of theatre is that of a stage and auditorium with tiered seats, an idea which most of us have experienced. The higher the standard the more likely it is that theatre will teach us something about ourselves and give us an increased sensitivity to the issues portrayed. People come into training as therapists for varying reasons.
