Sydney School of Playback 2012

Playback Theatre is an original form of improvisational theatre where an audience member’s personal story is immediately ‘played back’ onstage by the ensemble group of actors and musician, offering drama, creativity, humour and insight.

At the Sydney School of Playback Theatre all our workshops are designed to build skills that are useful in your personal and professional life. Some workshops focus on exploring Playback performance and developing the skills that underpin that performance (workshops 1,2,5) while other workshops (3,4) will draw on Playback skills but are focused on specific areas  of personal and professional development. All our workshops are designed for learning and for great fun.

1. Learn to do Playback Theatre!

Suitable for anyone (new or experienced) who wants to explore the Playback form or to build on their current Playback skills.

Harness the power of personal experience to explore the heart of dramatic conflict. The Dynamic Relationship will lead you on a journey to discover new and vital ways of expressing yourself through a combination of physical theatre, improvisation and voice. Over eight weeks some of the most experienced Playback practitioners in Australia will challenge you to connect with yourself and others in a full range of roles in ways that will assist you in your professional and personal life as well as on stage. This course is designed for those with playback experience as well as those who are new.

8 week program

Wednesday evenings 6.30pm>9.30pm

11 and 18 April, 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 May 6 June

Fee;

8 week $440 and $370 con.

(Early bird $390 and con $320 if paid by March 16)

2.   Revive, Refresh and reignite

A workshop to extend your playback skills!

Had a taste of Playback and want some more? Want to reconnect with the beauty and joy of sharing stories? Want to leap back into a world where everyone says ‘yes’? Then here is your chance to:

• find out more about the forms of Playback Theatre
• learn more about you as a performer, an improviser, and a listener
• simply give yourself the treat of ‘playingback’ for the weekend

If you have done a workshop with us previously, or if you have other Playback experience, then this workshop will help you reconnect with the thrills and spills of improvisation at its best.  You can join us to simply spend some time stretching you playback muscles or you can get individual feedback about specific skills you want to develop. Get back in touch with that playback impulse just waiting to let go.

2 day Workshop (9.30am – 5pm)

Saturday & Sunday

25/26 August  2012

$320 and $250 Concession

Early Bird b4 June 29

$290 and Concession $220

3. Working together through the good times and the bad…

What makes your company tick?

What’s the glue that holds a good company together,

and what goes wrong when it doesn’t?

PBT Sydney, like most theatre companies, has weathered many a storm over the

past 30 years. Dealing creatively with our own interpersonal and group conflicts

and dynamics is a core part of our performance work. Company life is all about

relationships, both internal and external & with members of up to 22 years

standing, we would like to share some of the processes and insights we have learned

along the way having gone through some difficult times and stayed together.

The workshop will have an action method base using  theatre techniques focused

on context and dynamics; Playback theatre (basic),  storytelling, role play, listening skills and because it is always valuable to laugh – some games! The focus  will be on the needs of groups involved in a creative process. Those who are seeking to better understand group process where the quality of the internal relationships impacts on the work the group does will find the workshop relevant and valuable.

2 day workshop (9.30am>5pm)

Saturday & Sunday

20/21 October

Fee;

$320 and $250 Concession

Early Bird b4 31 August

$290 and Concession $220

Where:

All programs will be held at the Inner West Cultural Centre.

35 Dickson Street
Newtown 2042

To enrol:

Please email your interest to playback@playbacktheatre.com.au or call us on 417 065 664