ABSTRACT
Applying the metaphor of theatre to family therapy is useful if one includes a wide definition of theatre and its performance. Theatre is associated not only with entertainment but also with learning: the range and forms of theatre include political, ‘street’ and improvisational theatre, such as Playback. Practice is considered here as a process of humanisation whereby the efforts of the practitioner (like the educationalist) ‘must co-incide with those of the students to engage in critical thinking and the quest for mutual humanisation. His efforts must be imbued with a profound trust in people and their creative power’ Freire (1996: 56).
