ABSTRACT
In December 2008, the group decided to perform some of the scenes they had improvised in the drama therapy session in front of an audience. Therefore, a play based on people’s improvisations in drama therapy could be harmful for patient privacy, and thus counter-therapeutic. According to drama therapy theory, a real catharsis occurs not when there is a peak of emotional discharge, but when emotion and cognition are at a good balance, implying a search for the right distance in playing roles. At first, borders between the arts, trying to refine the technique of dialogue among different expressive codes that the people had experimented with in the previous workshops, in which the art products are used as cues to embodiment and dramatization, and the resulting performances inspire art. The theatre workshop was hosted in a big hall within a therapeutic community, and sometimes one of the guests who did not attend the workshop would also unexpectedly attend.
