Kgotle, Moeketsi2021-02-232021-02-232020https://hdl.handle.net/10539/30616A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts (Applied Drama) in the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, 2020The research seeks to find a way to help people who feel they have been dehumanised. A hero’s journey is used as Applied Theatre to help people identify the issues that hold them back. They are then helped to transform those emotional issues into challenges. This Performance as Research project explores individual challenges and the resistance inherent in everyone to answering a call to duty (Bronzite, 2017). The call to duty, if we allow it, can be part of our own transformation process, taking us from a place of hurt to a place of healing. The research will take the shape of an autoethnographic interventionenThesis