Mullumbimby
Cape Byron Playback Theatre Company turns 10! Celebrating ten
years of playing back to local, regional, national and international
audiences, Cape Byron Playback Theatre invites you to a special
performance "Celebrating Community". Still going strong
after a decade of providing a forum for people to reflect on
and witness the stories that connect us, that move us, that
make us laugh and that inspire us. Come and share your moments
and stories and watch them played back to you by the highly-skilled
team of Playback actors and musicians.
Playback performance is a theatrical reflection of a story
told. There is no set script, audience members are invited to
tell stories, moments, tragedies or dreams from their lives.
Actors play the different roles and the story is recreated with
acting, music, vocalisation and movement. Playback breaks down
the barrier between actors and audience. It is truly malleable
and spontaneous theatre, with the skill of the actors and musicians
facilitating a unique theatre experience not possible in conventional,
more formal theatre.
It
was created by American psychodramatist Jonathan Fox, who developed
the idea of a spontaneous theatre that reflected back to a gathered
audience their view of the world as they experienced it. In
a Playback Theatre event someone in the audience tells a story
from their life, chooses actors to play the different roles,
then watches as their story is given artistic shape and coherence.
The telling and acting of these stories becomes a conversation
that enables a community to get to know itself better.
