ABSTRACT
The ideas that emerged and gathered under the heading of Systemic Focused Drama sprang from practice as a systemic therapist. In Systemic Focused Drama the therapist is an active conduit to introduce different perspectives but also as a tool for the expression of the "not yet said and not yet acted". The therapist is central to the improvisation and "steps back" when the action is over, and the audience and other participants become the critics and rewriters of the performance in which they have participated and/or observed. The position of the therapist as Transitional Performer is not rooted in drama therapy or in psychodrama, nor do the modes stem from Boal's rich theatrical approach. The crossovers with Systemic Focused Drama are therefore in similarities with dramaturgical methods used in other theoretical approaches, and this richness is to be celebrated as a connection across methodologies.
