Theatre for Therapy (TfT) is a participatory theatre practice which allows communities to write their own stories and perform in a theatre based on the messages that emerge from the storytelling process. It is a practice that operates from their perspectives, using their own language and expressions idioms. In this way, theatre is domesticated to specific needs, taken over and shaped by community people. They seek to demystify the ‘expert syndrome,’ which takes away agency from those at the ground level that the programmes and projects are intended for.
TfT is a participatory theatre practice which allows communities to write their own stories and perform in a drama based on the messages that emerge from the storytelling process. It is a practice which operates from their perspectives, using their own language and idioms of expressions. In this way theatre is domesticated to specific needs, taken over and shaped by community people. What they seek to demystify is the expert syndrome which takes away agency from those at ground level that the programmes and projects are intended for.
UTSA is working in this thematic area for last 26 years. As a result UTSA has a good numbers of theatre units, theatre volunteers, theatre therapists, theatre professional, and established Theater Therapy Center for the Disabled (TTCD), Bangladesh Therapeutic Theatre Institute (BTTI) and organize National Therapeutic Theatre Workshop (NTTW) since 2003.