Embracing dialogue as breathing: Exploring drama therapy as a tool for facilitating uncomfortable historical conversations

Abstract

The article reflects on the use of story and poetry as tools that facilitated a conversation related to uncomfortable historical conversations. It uses the performance of Krotoa, Eva van die Kaap as a starting point for unpacking the ways in which the play functioned as an extension of a drama therapy process on conversations about historical trauma. The Groote Kerk served as a symbolic meeting place as well as a way of thinking about therapeutic spaces for reparative dialogues.