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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.

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  • Sending Good Wishes to New Zealand

    We also send our heartfelt good wishes to residents of Christchurch, New Zealand, which has been home to a Playback Theatre company since the ‘80s. Sara Crane, an experienced playback practitioner there, writes: “I will be doing some Playback with a local school next week and am assessing where to put time and energy when [...]   More »
  • Our Hearts Are With Japan

    According to Kayo Munakata and Yas Sakurai, members of the playback community in Japan are OK, although lives have been disrupted in many ways, from having to stay in shelters because it was impossible to get home to suffering “the worst shaking I have every experienced.” Performances and a national PT conference scheduled for the [...]   More »
  • Breaking the Taboo

    Report on Playback on Death & Dying. Recently, Brisbane Playback Theatre performed at a conference for palliative care nurses. Neil Simmons, who attended the Centre’s summer session, reports on their experience. “When it came to the actual show it was not clear that it would work in a large conference room with 200 audience members. [...]   More »
  • Why I Do Playback

    Centre Director Sarah Urech just returned from  Winterthur, Switzerland, where she taught the Preconference Workshop for the Annual Playback Theatre Gathering of the German-Speaking Playback Network, which is held at the end of November every year in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland. This year’s conference theme is Playback Theatre – between Therapy, Art and Enterprise and [...]   More »

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