ABSTRACT
In my training workshops, an attempt is made to retain the dynamic interplay between therapist, child and puppet auxiliaries. An actor is trained to take on the role of the child, using a script that is as close to verbatim as possible. But that, too, is inadequate. We are repeating the words, and trying to replicate the movements, the expressions, the emotions of a moment that has already passed, whereas psychodrama is about the freshness and immediacy of the moment, experienced now. This reenactment is closer to conventional theatre-a theatre Moreno describes as ‘out of locus’ (Moreno 1926:18). What does he mean?
