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By Nick Rowe
This ebook is an exploration and critique of 'playback theatre', a sort of improvised theatre within which a firm of performers spontaneously enact autobiographical tales informed to them by means of contributors of the viewers. With greater than ten years' adventure as an actor with Playback Theatre York, the writer introduces the reader to the fundamentals of playback theatre inside of a old and theoretical context. The background and improvement of the shape is traced, from its perception within the past due Seventies to its next progress world wide, and its courting to the psychodrama culture from which it has advanced is mentioned. via an exam of playback performances from the views of performers, 'tellers' in their tales and the viewers, the writer significantly explores the character, implications and ethics of the performers' reaction to the teller's event, how notions of the general public and private are developed, and the dangers fascinated with improvising a reaction to a member of the audience's tale. "Playing the opposite" might be crucial interpreting for drama scholars, dramatherapists and all these drawn to the historical past and use of the theatre.
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Are the boundaries between the personal and public so blurred in playback performances that it constitutes a psychologically unsafe environment? Perhaps some tellers feel as I did after telling a story during rehearsal: Through telling the story I am over-exposed. I over-stepped my own privacy. Revealing what, at that moment, was not safe to reveal, I opened a wound, perhaps to appease, to please, or to be seen – and then I could find no way to close it. One of the other actors said to me ‘People will only tell stories that they feel safe to tell’.
There is a sense in which the performer is taking a risk in their performance. 5. Open performing produces work that is, in some way, unfinished, allowing the teller and spectators space to attribute their own meaning and interpretations to the work. The response of the performers in playback theatre is always and only a human response to another’s story. The performance can be wonderful, generous, risky and inspired, but it is never more than human. As such it can heighten awareness of the means and the narrative structures we employ to represent experience.
The story of The Sisters presents the actors with the possibility of exploring the archetypes of sister relationships and the broad sweep of time allows a counterpoint between how it was then and how it is now. The idea of ‘reconciliation’ gives the actors and the musicians a chance for imaginative creation. The Glass Door at first glance seems rather like one of the ‘closed stories’ I have referred to above. But, one could suggest, it is really a story about feeling foolish and being humiliated; it offered the actors an opportunity to explore the dynamics of social embarrassment that are familiar to us all.