Community Building with Playback Theatre

Playback theatre (PT) is a tool to share personal stories that are performed by PT actors. Audience and stage are at the same level and the link between them is the conductor/facilitator who creates a safe/welcoming atmosphere and invites people to share their stories. Main goal of PT is building community but is can be used also with other aims (therapeutical, problem solving, arising conciousness about a particular issue and so forth). On “stage” there are always coloured scarfs and boxes to be used by actors as props and one or two musicians who, as actors, improvise during the performance of the story to complement the main feeling/atmosphere that the group wants to convey.

I think this is a good method in a permacultural frame to give life to people’s stories or feelings referred to their learning process, group experiences and so forth.

Founder of playback theatre explaining what it is in a TED talk

INTRODUCING PLAYBACK THEATRE – March 2014 :This pdf is a summary of what playback theatre is, main objectives and all the elements that are needed.

All forms of playback theatre in an extraordinary educational video.

playback_theatreLink to resources from the international organisation of playback theatre.

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