Utopia

Theatre Activation – Transformative paths Introduction A very important sector in the panorama of current day theatre uses drama technique as a catalyst for awareness and growth, applying its methods towards the development of human potential. Most of these groups use, to varying degrees, the actors’ formative process, such as: self-knowledge, sense memory, improvisation, body awareness, character analysis, etc., to create a theatre process that is part of a social project, developing pathways and methods that can help connect microcosm to macrocosm; man/woman to the surrounding community; the self to the other. These processes, in the long run, tend to become performances, offering real opportunities for "collective self-awareness", creating "empathy fields", breaking down social stigma. Art and therapy: a dialectical binomial In many circles the word "theatre", especially in a social or mental health rehabilitation setting, is linked to th...