ISBN: 9780964235090 Géneros: Sinópsis: In a Playback Theatre performance audience members tell true stories about their lives and a team of actors improvises theatre pieces on the spot First developed in 1975 in upstate New York Playback Theatre is now practiced around the world in theatres schools refugee camps prisons governmental departmentswherever people have stories to tell Improvising Real Life Personal Story in Playback Theatre written by Playbacks cofounder Jo Salas is the basic text used by new and seasoned Playback practitioners trainers and university teachers The photoillustrated book describes the origins practice and philosophy of Playback Theatre Entertaining and thoughtful Improvising Real Life is illustrated with dozens of reallife stories told in performances and workshops It has been translated into German Japanese Spanish Chinese Traditional and Simplified Portuguese Russian Hebrew and Korean forthcoming The 20th Anniversary edition includes a foreword by Roberto Gutierrez Varea from Theatre Without Borders and cofounder of the Performing Arts and Social Justice Program at the University of San Francisco as well as an afterword by the author with comments on Playback39s current development