The aim of this study is to look closely into the participants/the actor’s process of selecting role from a play ‘Live-again’ which is a therapeutic play project from drama company ‘Ehoo’. In a therapeutic play, participant’s/actor’s process of choosing a role is a crucial part of therapeutic performance itself. Therefore, in the process of therapeutic play, the use of the story must be selected and utilized according to the target group. This is because therapeutic performance must consider each individual’s role as having the positive effect on their lives. To achieve this goal, we must have deep understanding of the system of the role for each participant/actor and must create expansion of each role as well as process of role acquisition to solve their problems.
The participants of ‘Live-again’ are 9 women ranging from late 20’s to early 50’s and selected folk tale ‘Sim-Chung-Jun’ and ‘Kongji and Patzzi’, which are considered as suitable stories for them. ‘Kongji and Patzzi’ also refers to women’s process of recovering feminity through complementing the deficient factors in inner-self. According to the role theory in dramatherapy, Kongji realize the opposite side and integrate her characters with playing the role of Patzzi and her mother Also, the story ‘Sim-Chung’ was selected because the majority of the participations hold a lot of guilty feeling inside and hopes to contribute beneficial activities to the society. In a process of therapeutic play, acquiring a role is achieved through the consecutive precess of identification, projection and metastasis.
This study shows through concrete case that the selection of role in a therapeutic play can only be a process of treatment. This study holds its meaning in which it shows process of treatment closely though specific case study that how the treatment process of identification, projection and metastasis happens to faintly provides other therapeutic play the direction in selecting roles. this case study is important because the therapist analyze a case in point with the statement and consent of the participant.