The theater, already conceived in the past as a form of inner cleanliness, is the right opportunity to put oneself to the test. The advantages deriving from it, in fact, can be important, especially in termites of personal and spiritual growth . Let's find out how.
The theater, an ancient catharsis
Making theater means gathering the will to clean oneself, seeing oneself with new eyes. It is in fact an experience that, if continued over time, allows us to come into contact with our profound essence.
It is no coincidence that many forms of theatrotherapy or psychodrama have been developed, including experimental paths such as that of the Theater of the Oppressed, which stages real conflicts, difficulties.
The theater was originally conceived as a real form of interior cleansing with an absolutely social aspect. Catharsis derives from the Greek katharsis (κἁθαρσις, "purification"), to be understood as hygiene with respect to a contamination (miasma) that could have had to do with both a spiritual and material event.
The tragedy in classical Greece had precisely the function of collective ritual. Bringing to the stage, the human being revealed the human being to himself, in his nature and character, in his vices. Through the myth emerged the truth of being in the world, analyzing the relationship with the norm, the way to make choices and carry them forward. He therefore also had a psychological value, a drive to know oneself.
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The benefits of theater
The first form is that given by the possibility of evolving through the social connection with other individuals united together by an experimentation on oneself or an already corroborated passion for theatrical practice. In addition to social value, with the theater you get to play with yourself and you come to the possibility of laughing even about yourself.
Another benefit is from the motor point of view: if you use the body well and rely on a guide or a trainer who is aware of basic physiological functions, with some holistic ingredients, theatrical training becomes a form complete to do a work on yourself even from the body.
Effective training cannot fail to take the voice into account . It is not so much a question of making actors or feeling oneself as such, but of embodying a living process, which also brings vitality. Bringing emotions, laughter and sighs to the stage makes us understand that we can also experience these movements with detachment.
Beyond the fact that the psychodrama of JL Moreno exists and has been codified, theater is like dance, it is perhaps redundant to associate the word therapy with something that already takes care of itself. However, in psychodrama the patient "represents" himself, staging his own psychic dynamic .
Even a theater made with the heart, with a technique that blends wisdom and humanity, even a similar theater, without going on the pathological side, which is still a human definition, even a theater of such care. Implicitly, silently. And so stunning.
