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Playback Theatre is an original form of improvisational theatre in which audience or group members tell stories from their lives and watch them enacted on the spot. Depending on its use, Playback Theatre can be considered a modality of drama therapy. Improvisational theatre (also known as improv or impro) is a form of theatre in which the actors perform spontaneously, without a script. ...
Drama therapy is a health and human services profession that seeks to facilitate physical integration and personal growth for individuals, couples, families, and various groups through the use of theatrical and dramatic processes. ...
History
Founded in 1975 by Jonathan Fox and Jo Salas. Fox was student of improvisational theatre, oral traditional tale-telling, psychodrama and the work of Paulo Freire. 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...
Jonathan Fox is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. ...
Improvisational theatre (also known as improv or impro) is a form of theatre in which the actors perform spontaneously, without a script. ...
Oral tradition or oral culture is a way of transmitting history, literature or law from one generation to the next in a civilization without a writing system. ...
Psychodrama is a method of psychotherapy which explores, through action, the problems of people. ...
Paulo Freire Paulo Freire (Recife, Brazil September 19, 1921 - São Paulo, Brazil May 2, 1997) was a Brazilian educator and influential theorist of education. ...
The original Playback Theatre Company made its home in Dutchess and Ulster Counties of New York State, just north of New York City. This group, while developing the basis of the Playback form, took it to schools, prisons, centers for the elderly, conferences, and festivals in an effort to encourage individuals from all walks of society to let their story be heard. They also performed monthly for the public-at-large. State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki Official languages None Area 141,205 km² (27th) - Land 122,409 km² - Water 18,795 km² (13. ...
The playback theatre idea has inspired many people. Playback companies now exist on five continents. The International Playback Theatre Network was founded in 1990 to support Playback activity throughout the world. As of 2004, the IPTN has 100 company and 300 individual members from 40 countries.
International Playback conferences have taken place in Sydney, Australia (1992), Christchurch, New Zealand (1993), in a village north of Helsinki, Finland (1993), in Olympia, Washington (1995), Perth, Australia, (1997), York, England (1999) and Shizuoka, Japan (2003).
To meet the demand for training which this level of growth has created, Jonathan Fox, Jo Salas and guest faculty run the School of Playback Theatre, providing beginning, intermediate and advanced levels of training in Playback Theatre since 1993.
Resources - Improvising Real Life: Personal Story in Playback Theatre - Jo Salas, 1993
- Acts Of Service: Spontaneity, Commitment, Tradition in the Nonscripted Theatre - Jonathan Fox, 1986
- Gathering Voices: Essays on Playback Theatre - Ed. Jonathan Fox & Heinrich Dauber, 1999
- Performing Playback Theatre (training DVD) - co-produced by the School of Playback Theatre and Hudson River Playback Theatre, 2006
- Half of My Heart/La Mitad de Mi Corazón - Eds. Jo Salas and Leslie Gauna, 2007
See also Improvisational theatre (also known as improv or impro) is a form of theatre in which the actors perform spontaneously, without a script. ...
Psychodrama is a method of psychotherapy which explores, through action, the problems of people. ...
Locations of Playback theatre companies Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Norway, Singapore, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Uruguay, USA
External links Doubledecker Bus, Workshops in Europe)] |
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