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Experiences of interruption

A first year dramatherapy student died unexpectedly in the autumn term of 2018 at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (RCSSD). The impact of her death sent deep ripples of shock and grief through her family, friends, fellow students, and the staff team. Can there be any interruption more devastating than death? Over time, her peers worked hard to process what had happened, honour her unique contribution, and rebuild their confidence. Fifteen months later, as they looked towards the final term of their two-year training, Covid-19 took hold, severing their physical connection to RCSSD, their placements, their families, and each other. In just two years, this year group had experienced a twofold interruption in continuity and containment-the tragic loss of one of the student body, and the loss of an embodied ending. This chapter is a re-telling of the lived experience of interruption, told through the voices of the students, within the frame of a one-off group process session. Group process is a reflective and collaborative modality, run on group analytic lines, and unique to the Sesame MA in Drama and Movement Therapy at RCSSD. It is usually a confidential discussion space, meeting weekly during the first year of training, but the global pandemic we are living through, and the multiple unknowns we are facing, call to us for creative responses to change and uncertainty. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)