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Telling Is Listening and the magic of real human communication

July 14, 2017

Maria Popova is a marvel. Through her Brain Pickings newsletter, she provides inspiration and sustenance for all seekers and valuers of the human experience. Here she offers an insight into Ursula K. Le Guin’s piece, Telling Is Listening, on the Magic of Real Human Conversation. Playback Theatre could not exist without our Tellers and our…

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An insiders view of Winter Magic…

July 13, 2017

Katoomba’s Winter Magic Festival last month marked the 2017 Winter Solstice and celebrated the coming of longer days ahead. Playback Theatre Sydney was fortunate to be asked to perform at the gorgeous light-filled Katoomba Cultural Centre, and our ensemble member, Paula Novotna, recounts how this wonderful show unfolded. What happened at our Winter Magic Festival Show……

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True story – tall tales and true!

June 1, 2017

Personal story has it all – emotion and energy, humour and horror, and often stranger-than-fiction surprise. And and listening to life’s stories through another’s tale can often highlight our shared humanity – and our absurdity! This year, commercial television has cottoned onto our entertaining Playback style in Hamish and Andy’s True Story. We’re chuffed that our Playback…

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Insights from Playback Practice (PP)

April 18, 2017

We are all hardwired to tell and receive stories and have an innate understanding of what a story is and what it means. Communicating a good story, however is a skill, and it is useful to have a few tools and also someone to hear it and give some feedback on what they are actually…

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Insights from Playback Practice

March 8, 2017

As you may know, our ensemble meets weekly to maintain and deepen our Playback Practice (PP).  During each PP we discuss company business and practise our theatre craft. Since we share leadership in our company, something that comes up repeatedly for each leader, is how to maintain the balance between the meeting’s program or agenda,…

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What our clients are saying about us…

November 28, 2016

We work in organisational culture and teams, and in 2016 performed at conferences and ran training, workshops and role plays. Recent clients have outlined the value we offer their business cultures

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Why Play?

November 28, 2016

  Playfulness – we don’t get enough of it as adults. Play is an antidote to the stresses of getting ahead in life. Play brings us to the present moment, the connected moment, the fun moment the expansive moment – and who doesn’t want more of that in this life!?   Sometimes we don’t know…

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What our clients are saying about us…

November 28, 2016

We work in organisational culture and teams, and in 2016 performed at conferences and ran training, workshops and role plays. Recent clients have outlined the value we offer their business cultures – read about our work below:   Liverpool City Council’s Diversity and Cultural Intelligence Training (partnering with Prisma): a) The diversity training was an…

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A word from our ensemble

November 27, 2016

2016? Here’s some of the ‘stand outs’ for our ensemble Newbies, oldies, great music, laughter and tears. What a great year it’s been. Best bits for me included the Playback Jam in Wollongong and our recent work with the Arts Health institute in Robertson. – Catherine The highlight this year would have to be the Greek…

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Truth & Disclosure – Daring to Connect

September 5, 2016

open disclosure as best practice    Last month some of our players participated in a role play. Role plays are a slight departure from our usual work, as instead of recreating an audience member’s story onstage, we are given a character and a situation which we then realize, for a particular scene or designated outcome….

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