Playback Theater is improvised theater enhanced by live music, based-on personal stories told by the audience members.
Leading & directing the course of the performance is a Conductor that helps guide the audience members and ensures the Actors — usually 3-5 persons –have the information they need to Honor the Teller/ the Audiences member.
There is also a musician to add mood, color, drama.
I plan to train a group of committed/ dedicated Youth in the various forms of PT that comprise a full performance.
Hopefully, there will step forward one or more of the group that either is comfortable or trained in music; if not so, one or more untrained folks will learn how-to improvise simple musical feelings/ tones/ timings.
Also, there will be one to 3 that will train as Conductor.
At weekly 3 hour trainings, this will likely take 2-3 months for all to B prepared enough to present to a small group of both Students receiving Services of assistance and their helpers/ therapists/ behavioral teams.
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NEEDS:
There will be a need for a weekly, spacious, free-of-furniture area for an acting group to be allowed to be loud, expressive, music & physically active.
There will be a need for a safe/lockable, small room/ closet, maybe, to store props, musical equipt, stools/ boxes used for actors to sit+