A Retrospective Study of Autobiographical Performance During Dramatherapy Training

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This chapter focuses on students’ creation of autobiographical theatre performances during postgraduate drama therapy training in the United Kingdom. We discuss the ideas that inform the inclusion of such performances in the training, and establish how ‘having performed one’s own piece and witnessed that of others’ affects the graduates’ subsequent drama therapy practice. The chapter is informed by data from semi-structured interviews with current and former faculty and students, as well as ideas derived from theatre and memory studies, and the socio-dynamics of everyday self-revelation.

Keywords

Autobiographical Memory Fellow Student Public Performance Drama Therapy Pedagogic Rationale 
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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank those who would rather not be named ( pseudonyms have been used throughout this chapter), as well as Eva Marie Bryer, Michelle Buckley, Terence Clay, Peter Darby Knight, Christian Dixon, Clare Hubbard, Annabel Maidment, Ciara McClelland, Emma Ramsden, Bea Scott, and Jessica Williams-Ciemnyjewski for their contributions to this research.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Anglia Ruskin UniversityCambridgeUK
  2. 2.Independent Researcher and Organization ConsultantLondonUK

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