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Under the stairs Is a small room with a long-dead bulb a yellow pay phone

Sending young children to boarding school may be considered a particularly British form of child abuse and social control. The trauma of the rupture with home may be followed by other ordeals such as emotional deprivation and, in extreme cases, physical and sexual abuse.

By Lucy Windridge-Floris PhD with Sadie Maddocks, Artistic Director and Performer Trauma, including Boarding school experience, can profoundly change the direction of one’s life.  Aesthetic distancing is at the heart of arts therapies.  This article explores how theatrical performance can facilitate healing and redress the trauma of childhood bullying. As people with trauma are invalidated time and time again, the author asks you to suspend judgement that Boarding School is a