Playback theatre workshop
with Full Circle Playback Theatre
Are you interested in connection, communication, and community? Do you want to work more with your body and less with language? In this workshop, participants are offered the chance to play with the improvisational theatre form "Playback Theatre”, creating a space where any story - however ordinary, extraordinary, hidden or difficult - might be told, and immediately transformed into theatre, where each person's uniqueness is honoured and affirmed, while at the same time building and strengthening connections to each other as a community.
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.