ABSTRACT
Drawing examples from a participatory theatre workshop organised in Mbalmayo, Cameroon, this chapter will show how children participants reconstruct their past through playing to achieve self-purgation. It looks at the use of play and how it is integrated into a theatre production and how this latter can then become therapeutic though this might not have been its primary objective. How is such a performance conceived, structured and performed? How do participants undergo the self-liberation process?
