THE DRAMATIC PLAY AND THE PSYCHODRAMA SESSION
THE DRAMATIC PLAY AND THE PSYCHODRAMA SESSION

Summary/Abstract: The present article attempts to give a complex analytical image of psychodrama, from the point of its birth (the essential contribution of J.L. Moreno’s revolutionary ideas in the theatrical field) to the theory and practice of dramatherapy during the XXth century. Underlining the differences and meeting points between psychodrama, drama, therapeutic theatre and life, the study follows the motivation of the play in the theatrical art and in the group therapy and the role casting as a creative and as at therapeutic act, taking into consideration at each step that psychodrama is a very delicate, complex thing and an extremely significant action. The characters of the drama and of the psychodrama session, the techniques and procedures used in drama and psychodrama, the dramatic and the psychodramatic “playground” (the stage, common territory in drama and psychodrama, on which the events unfold), their setting and lighting, the dramatic reality (surplus reality) and the verbal discourse in drama performance and psychodrama session, are some of the elements on which the analysis focuses its attention.

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