Veronica Needham, a Playback Theatre practitioner, has kindly offered an overview of Playback Theatre and its techniques and uses.

About Playback Theatre

Playback Theatre is an original form of participative/ interactive theatre which offers inspiration, surprise, entertainment, as well as an opportunity for deep communication between people.

Building community through personal stories

Playback Theatre creates a ritual space where any story – however ordinary, extraordinary, hidden or difficult – might be told, and immediately made into theatre. This theatre form is in direct service to healing relationship, communication and understanding between people. This is an underlying value, so the conductor interacts directly with the audience with respect and human warmth, and is sensitive to the larger social context of the Playback event. » Continue reading “Playback Theatre”