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Event: 'Uses Of Therapeutic Puppetry And Ethnographic Performance With Victims Of Violence And Trauma'

Schools/Educational

Date: Thursday, March 18, 2010 At 01:45:00 PM

Duration: 4 Hours 15 Minutes

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The Awesome Puppet Company

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The aim of the workshop is to explore one of the ways puppetry can be used as a dramatherapy medium with the survivors of political and ethnic violence. Using a case study from the aftermath of the riots following Indira Gandhi’s assasination in Delhi in 1984 as a starting point, we will develop a basic repertoire of practical therapeutic puppetry skills that can readily transpose to different dramatherapy settings. The process will involve building our own puppets (using mostly recycled materials) which we will use in a series of vignettes to embody key issues emerging from the case study.

The workshop forms part of the University of Worcester's MA in Dramatherapy programme and is a closed group event.