Friday 4th May 2012 Public Performance – 8pm start
This is our first show of 2012 – look forward to seeing you there. Please come at 7.45pm for an 8pm start. The show runs to about 9.30pm and we host light snacks afterwards. Playback Theatre is a unique improvisional theatre with no script. The material for the performance comes from the audience. Assisted by the conductor, who holds a performance, people in the audience share moments and stories from their lives, which are then immediately re-enacted or “played...
Theatrical Form
The Playback ‘form’ as developed by Fox and Salas utilises component theatrical forms or pieces, developed from its sources in improvisational theatre, storytelling, and psychodrama. These components include scenes (also called stories or vignettes) and narrative or non-narrative short forms, including fluid sculptures, pairs, and chorus. In a playback event, someone in the audience tells a moment or story from their life, chooses the actors to play the...
Playback Theatre’s History
The first Playback Theatre company was founded in 1975 by Jonathan Fox and Jo Salas. Fox was a student of improvisational theatre, oral traditional storytelling, Jacob Moreno’s psychodrama method and the work of Paulo Freire. Salas was a trained musician and activist. Both had served as volunteers in developing countries: Fox as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal, Salas with New Zealand’s Volunteer Service Abroad in Malaysia. The original Playback Theatre...
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Playback Video
The Playback ‘form’ as developed by Fox and Salas utilises component theatrical forms or pieces, developed from its sources in improvisational theatre, storytelling, and psychodrama. These components include scenes (also called stories or vignettes) and narrative or non-narrative short forms, including fluid sculptures, pairs, and chorus.
