ABSTRACT
A considerable number of aims and values have been claimed for work variously described as ‘Educational’ or ‘Creative’ Drama and many of these have been extended to Drama Therapy. Perhaps it is not an outrageous simplification to suggest that drama with an improvisational basis embraces three main areas:
Opportunities for expression and creativity which help the growing personality and enrich the imaginative life, thus enabling personal and social growth
Freeing the body and mind and voice for a fuller, better life and for the arts of the theatre
Opportunities for examining human behaviour and for exploring reactions and motives which contribute to the creation of a ‘character’.
