This week we had a visit from veronica from Trueheart theater who showed us about playback theater which is when you improvise using real life stories, we learned that play-back theater angles its material on the experiences of the community. In cinemas, classes, and a variety of educational and business configurations, Playback Theatre draws people together and allows fresh viewpoints.
In Playback theater therew are different roles:
The Conductor: Interviews the teller and collaborates with the audience.
The Teller: Communicate the feeling with the story.
I think that Playback theater seems like a great way to develop and devise as long as the story-teller is confident and descriptive in their story, communicating feeling through a story is one of the ways in which we interact on a daily basis and how we can spread unity through a passage for political and cultural change in much the same way as narrative can as Langellier writes (1998, p210) ''rather than seeing personal narrative as simply one person's story, we should look more closely in an attempt to see the political in the personal - 'the social, cultural, historical construction of difference' that personal narrative performances can illuminate.''
Langellier, K, M. (1998). Voiceless bodies, bodiless voices: The future of personal narrative performance, in S.J Dailey (Ed.), The future of performance Studies: Visions and Revisions, Washington DC: national communication association, PP 207-213
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