'if oppression can be defined as having no one to tell their story to, our mission has been to provide a space for anyone and everyone to be heard.'
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I had a challenging and exhilarating time at our first Playback Theatre workshop in Machynlleth yesterday. If it all goes well over the next three sessions, I'm really hoping that plans to establish a local Playback company come to fruition. Me being me, of course, I'm very interested in the radical potential of Playback and in the nexus with other forms, most particularly Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) and Forum Theatre. Here's the wonderful Carboard Citizens' take on TO. The academic in me has already read a bit about Playback and its relation with other forms. There's a good website with freely downloadable articles, including introductions by originator Jonathan Fox, Veronica Needa and others. In an academic article, Nisha Sajnini and David Read Johnson compare Playback with TO and Developmental Transformation. And there's an excellent article on the ethics of Playback by Nick Rowe. In terms of the radical potential of Playback, I particularly liked Sajnani and Johnson quoting Jonathan Fox: 'if oppression can be defined as having no one to tell their story to, our mission has been to provide a space for anyone and everyone to be heard.' Coming soon to a community near you!
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