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PLAYBACK THEATRE RESOURCE LIBRARY

Resources for playback theatre practitioners

Note: Resources are grouped by subject. Interplay references are to a PDF of full issue. Please scroll to desired article. [The list is in process of being compiled. Please send us suggestions for additions.]


KEY:
*Full text article:   

*ASU Symposium:  ASU 

*School of PT Leadership Essay:  LE 

*Dissertations about playback theatre:  PhD

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Performing
 

Playback Instrument List

 

Essential Skill Areas for Playback Performances

 

Cube Construction, Courtesy of Hudson River Playback Theatre

                 

Kids at PT Shows, Fe Day, Interplay, June 1996 performance

 

Administration Checklist for Contract Performance, Sydney Playback Theatre, Interplay, March 1998

     

Acting in Playback Theatre, Christian Penny, Interplay, September 2002

 

Listening with the Body on the Stage of Playback Theatre, Peltoniemi, Sisko, 1997.  *Also in Finnish* LE

 Company Life & Management

 

The Struggle to start a company,  Ingeborg Vonholt (Meyer) and Mary Good, Interplay, March 1991

 

Men in Playback, Michael Clemente, with Jonathan Fox, Interplay, November 1991

 

Leadership in PT Companies: The Director Approach and the Group Consensus Approach.  VanNess, Timothy. 1994.  LE

 

Woven Together by Love: A Look at Company Life in PT .  Urech, Sarah.  1996.  LE

 

Reaching for "Diversity," "Inclusion," "Multiculturalism," in Playback Theatre, John L. Johnson, Interplay, March, 1996

 

What the PT Companies Earn, Päivi Ketonen, Interplay, November 1997

 

Playback Theatre, Diversity and Two Economies.  Salas, Jo. 2005.   ASU

 

 

PT & Diversity
 

Reaching for "Diversity," "Inclusion," "Multiculturalism," in Playback Theatre, John L. Johnson, Interplay, March, 1996

Using PT to Explore African-American Identity, Kimberly Rattley, 1997.  LE

Playback Theatre, Diversity and Two Economies.  Salas, Jo. 2005.   ASU

 

PT vs. other approaches

 

Playback in Theatre for Development, Ananda Breed, 2002. Available: www.playbackcentre.org/resources_Breed.htm  

 

On Theatre of the Oppressed, Psychodrama and Playback Theatre. Fox, Jonathan. 2004.

Available: www.playbackcentre.org/pt_compared_psy_and_to.htm.

 
 

 Playback in Organizations

 

Playback Theatre. Halley, Sarah and Jonathan Fox.  In The Change Handbook: Group Methods for Shaping the Future, edited by Holman, Devane and Cady (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006)

 

Issues in Organizations that Lend Themselves to a Playback Approach.  Halley, Sarah.  LE

 
 

PT in Education

 

 Trends in PT for Education, by Jonathan Fox, Interplay, November 1992

 

 Talks on Education, Mary Good, Deborah Pearson, & Bev Hosking, Interplay, April, 1994

 

 Playback Theatre in Education, Francesca Benson, Interplay, November 1996

 

 Le Theatre Playback et la Formation des Eleves Maitres.  Auque-Dauber, Charlette. 2001. LE

 

 Using Theater to Address Bullying. Educational Leadership. Salas, Jo.  September 2005  

 

                 

Playback following civil and natural disaster

 

The Contribution PT can make to the Northern Ireland Situation McKeagney, Orla. 1998.  

 

Playback and the Landscape of DisasterLayman, William D. 2000.

 

"Da Day We See Wind in Grenada": Community Dialogue and Healing Through Playback Theatre.  Rogers, Tracie. 2005. 

 

Notes on the Katrina Relief Project in New Orleans, 2006. http://www.playbackcentre.org/Katrina_nyteam.htm

 

 

Populations

 

Use of Playback with HIV+ African-American Males, Gregory Ford, Interplay, March 1996

     

Playback Theatre in Rehabilitation, Veronica Needa, Interplay, December 1998

 

Playback Project with the Deaf, Interplay, August 1999

 

Before We Left the Prison, They Hugged Us, Christine Lassiter, Interplay, April 2000

 

A Story to Tell: Advocacy with Playback Theatre.  Tam, Janet & Fung, Emily. 2005.    ASU

 

Men redefining Men: Playback Inside Prison Walls, Rich Menges, January 2004

  

Acting Out in Hospital Corridors:  Playback Theatre in a Medical Setting.  Patterson, Paula.  2004.  LE

        

Empowering the Outcast:  Past versus Future Storytelling.   Hayes, Darby. 2006.  LE    

 

                 

 

                                  

 

 

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