Join us in the discovery and development of PLAYBACK THEATRE in the North EAST of UK.
This is a club where you can experience the fundamentals of the practice and develop your skills to become a Playback actor and musician. Not in one workshop but over time if you attend regularly.
Please also come along and have a go if performance doesn’t excite you because you can join and practice just for yourself. Get to know you better, build soft skills, belong to a playful uplifting community, develop your person. All great reasons.
Come and experience PLAYBACK THEATRE for the first time or come back to play/tell/listen again to real life stories.
The purpose of these OPEN workshops is to build the community who can and want to practice this form of improvisation, grow with it and in the long run to build an ensemble to perform for live audiences in and around Newcastle and the North East of England.
Open to everyone, no performing experience necessary.
We dedicate this session to
*get to know each other and play
*get to know the basics and the concept of Playback Theatre in practice.
*get to know some forms and the ethics of Playback Theatre and the value of listening and telling our stories in a group
*performs to each other where you can choose to be an audience or performer
*tell our life stories small or big
*practice listening
*practice improvised community theatre
*make friends
DATE
6th of June 2025
TIMES
Arrival from 5 pm
Starting time 5.30 pm
Finishing time around 7.30 pm
VENUE
ONE Strawberry lane
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Ne1 4Td
Community HUB
CONTRIBUTION
FREE taster however registration is a must to take part.
BOOKING
Please send a message here on Facebook to book your place or send an email to
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WHAT IS PLAYBACK THEATRE?
My dear teacher Veronica Needa once wrote the following:
Playback Theatre is created through a unique collaboration between performers and audience. Someone tells a story or moment from their life, chooses actors to play the different roles, and then watches as their story is immediately recreated and given artistic shape and coherence.
BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH PERSONAL STORIES
Playback Theatre creates a ritual space where any story - however ordinary, extraordinary, hidden or difficult -might be told, and immediately made into theatre. And where each person's uniqueness is honoured and affirmed while at the same time building and strengthening our connections to each other as a community of people.
ORIGINS
The original Playback Theatre Company came together in 1975, with Jonathan Fox as its director. This was in the mid-Hudson valley of upstate New York and part of the experimental theatre explorations of the 1970s - looking for ways of reaching out to its audience, bringing theatre closer to everyday reality, and breaking away from the tradition of scripted theatre. Since then, Playback Theatre has spread across the world with companies and practitioners in many, many countries. It thrives in a variety of settings, existing as community theatre gatherings as well as a professional service to both the business and social sector.
FACILITATOR
Agi Orban has been practising Playback Theatre since 2009. She has started her journey in Hungary, Budapest with Pepita Playback theatre.
She moved to the UK/London in 2013 to learn more of this form of improvised community theatre and was lucky to work with True Heart Theatre and London Playback Theatre on many various projects.
She was the administrator for the School of Playback Theatre UK between 2013-2016. In 2018 she moved to the North East of England and started the Playback Theatre in Byker project where she taught Playback Theatre to the members of the community and the project lasted a year.
She was a happy member of Newcastle Playback Theatre as well.
Agi has graduated in 2019 on the Playback Theatre Leadership course and holds a certificate from The Centre for Playback Theatre on the ART of teaching Playback Theatre.
Since 2021 Agi is a proud member of Playback Theatre York. (
https://www.playbackyork.co.uk)
She is also a developing practitioner of the Theatre of the Oppressed and a junior clown who is learning to be very
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