Full Circle Playback Theatre
Playback Theatre is a theatre form created through a unique collaboration between performers and audience, where an audience member tells a moment or story from their life and the actors re-enact the story through various playback ‘forms’.
The actor’s response is a creative, spontaneous, physical improvisation within a framework of structured ritual.
At the same time, the Playback musician provides a musical soundtrack to these enactments.
About Playback Theatre
With a combined experience of 20 years in both Playback Theatre, physical theatre and stage craft, Lou van Laake (Dutch-born based in Dublin) and Marcin Pietruszka (Polish-born and based) create a playful space for those who want to stretch their theatrical language through group and pair work. Lou has been leading Dublin-based Playback Theatre group “Full Circle Playback Theatre” since 2015, and has brought it through the years of Covid to become an Ireland-wide group of performers that create inclusive, creative, and explorative improvisational theatre both in person and online. The online branch-out brought her in contact with Marcin, who has brought his world of theatre directing, writing, and acting to the table with sensitive strength.
