Embodying the change - Conducting Playback theatre for social impact with Devrim and Hani, Berlin 2025

Some of us want to use Playback Theatre as a tool for Social Justice. This can be done - and in our opinion should be done - anytime we can. 

Conducting means to guide a process and not just opening the space for those who want to speak and listening to them. As conductors we are the representatives of our team, we embody our stands, our principles and are responsible for what will be invited and accepted during the performance. 

Inclusion is really not about inclusion, it’s a conscious practice of non-exclusion. If you have ever felt unwelcome or the odd one out in any social situation, you probably understand what this really means. Your choice to attend something, a lot of times, can depend more on what’s not there rather than what’s there. And the tiny detail that’s not there, in some cases, reads louder than all the perks that have been listed. That detail call out as an “un-invite” rather than an “invite”.

In this weekend workshop, we will explore the art of acting on the Playback stage. Often, Playback actors simply show, illustrate or amplify the actions, facts, thoughts and feelings described by the teller. Those techniques alone rarely deliver a transformative experience.

In this 2-day workshop we will learn how to listen more deeply, with our whole body, in order to find in it the right input to give an appropriate response to a story. When we truly listen, when we are open to receive the resonance from our senses, our playback performance can only be true, spontaneous and genuine.

Once we learn how to truly listen, the confusion around the boundaries of stories disappears.

Our bodies know.

In questo workshop esploreremo la struttura del rituale, ripulendola e chiarendo cosa ne faccia parte e cosa no. Poi, ci dedicheremo a rompere i nostri rituali personali, trovando nuove forme espressive e ad individuare le tradizioni da mantenere, rinfrescando il nostro rapporto con il Playback.

Dedicheremo una parte del weekend alla supervisione e vedremo come il rituale possa esserci d’aiuto nel trovare risposta alle nostre domande. Porta la tua!

This two day workshop will give participants insights and skills that can be applied while responding to the social dimensions of stories.

We will also explore our own layers of bias and identity and the relevance of this work in company life and in building partnerships with organisations who seek a more socially just world.

This course is a good chance for beginners who want to learn more about Playback Theatre as well as for intermediate or advanced practitioners who want to experiment more, go deeper and challenge their creativity.

This event is a two-days intensive Playback Theatre workshop where we are going to play with our creativity, exploring physical and vocal expression and reconnecting with our spontaneity.

In such complex times, we may feel easily emotional: sometimes it is hard to hold on to something stable when everything around us is going fast and constantly changing. The practice of conscious theatrical improvisation allows us to discover our true self, the part of us that is authentic and not ever changing according to the circumstances. Our center, our heart.

Rediscovering Spontaneity is a 3-days intensive group where we will reconnect with our natural way of expressing ourselves, through the use of Playback Theatre.

This is an amazing, yet very simple, improv technique that creates an atmosphere of safety, trust and intimacy where we can easily open up and express ourselves freely.

This course is a good chance for beginners who want to learn more about Playback Theatre as well as for intermediate or advanced practitioners who want to experiment more, go deeper and challenge their creativity.

This course is a good chance for beginners who want to learn more about Playback Theatre as well as for intermediate or advanced practitioners who want to experiment more, go deeper and challenge their creativity.

Sometimes the group will practice together and other times the group is going to be divided according to everyone’s personal experience with PT.

When we improvise we are true, we are our authentic self. And whatever we do on stage is, in some way, a reflection of what we do in our life, of who we are. Becoming aware of this is the only purpose of this laboratory. Together, we are going to use improvisational theatre as a tool to become more aware of ourselves, more present and more whole.

When we improvise we are true, we are our authentic self. And whatever we do on stage is, in some way, a reflection of what we do in our life, of who we are. Becoming aware of this is the only purpose of this laboratory. Together, we are going to use improvisational theatre as a tool to become more aware of ourselves, more present and more whole.