[CAH] Fw: Playback theatre workshop for youth

Fri Feb 17 11:19:47 EST 2006

Hi there, 

Attached in Word are a poster and registration forms for a Playback Theatre workshop that Community Action on Homelessness is sponsoring with Fish n' Tackle Playback Theatre 

The workshop will take place on February 25 and 26 at Brunswick Street United Church. We are able to offer assistance with transportation and and honorarium. Lunch and other refreshments are offered as well.  This workshops promises to be dynamic and empowering for the youth who attend. Please spread word to your program participants. 

Below is information about Playback Theatre provided by  Fish n' Tackle Theatre.

I can be contacted at the information below if there are any further questions.

Darcy Harvey, SWC
Capacity Development Worker
Community Action on Homelessness
2020 Gottingen Street
Halifax, NS B3K 3A9
TEL:(902) 420-2186
FAX:(902) 420-6038
dharvey at cahhalifax.org

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ABOUT PLAYBACK THEATRE AND ITS BENEFITS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
WORDS FROM FISH N' TACKLE PLAYBACK THEATRE

"Playback Theatre really captivated the imagination and brought out the excitement in our students.it made me think of using more drama in the classroom."

 -Joe Murphy, Grade 9 teacher at Clayton Park Jr. High

Playback Theatre is an improvisational, interactive theatre where your feelings and stories are played back to you on the spot. It comes out of J.L. Moreno's work in psychodrama. It is a spontaneous, healing storytelling form, which is valuable for validating the personal experience of participants. Playback places high value on intimacy, inclusivity,  interactivity and connectivity. 

In our experience young people love an opportunity to have their feelings, fantasies and life stories heard, honoured and portrayed by five actors and a musician.  It allows them to have a voice and feel that the events of their young lives have meaning. The 'tellers' who volunteer to come up from the audience can also choose to have a "transformation" of their story, where they are the agent of change. This opportunity can deepen the experience, bringing about a powerful release of emotion and a new perspective on the memory or situation.  There are Playback Theatre groups in over 30 countries now and the testimony of practitioners globally is that people will share their stories because they are ready, and often yearning to tell them.

"It was fun and really opened my eyes to other people's experiences" - Audience member.

KATE WILKINSON (Director of Fish n' Tackle Playback  Theatre      Transformational Theatre Biography 

I came to Halifax in 2000 to do a  M. Ed in order develop my skills as a 'Joker' for my work in the Theatre of the Oppressed and as a 'Conductor' of Playback Theatre, and that year I formed Fish 'n Tackle Playback Theatre.  The company was based out of Brunswick St. United Church until Jan 2004, and is just reforming in order to continue its work within the more disenfranchised sectors of the community, for the schools and in health care.  The company members bring a wide range of theatre and counselling skills.  Having witnessed the power that these theatre tools have to directly transform people's lives, we intend to expand the scope of the educational, health and social issues that may be creatively explored in workshops, and conferences.

I have worked as theatre director, producer, and arts animator for over 25 years and have performed over 30 lead roles as an actor. I am also an experienced facilitator who offers workshops in Transformational Theatre through my company Acting on Your Own Behalf.  From 1997 - 2002 I taught acting to teens and young adults, and in the fall of 1999 I developed and gave an Image Theatre workshop for a conference of the teen programme of the Canadian Diabetes Association.

As Artistic Director of Target Theatre in Victoria. B.C. from 1994 -1999 I developed seven Forum Theatre plays: five were for caregivers of those suffering from Alzheimer's disease; two of these were on substituted judgement for end of life decision making, (A Wake for Dying was published in the U.S. in Sandra Bertman's text, Grief and the Healing Arts).  Five are interactive presentations that combine the transformational theatre techniques of forum theatre, image theatre and/or role play.  Using these same techniques I have also worked with B.C.'s Puente Theatre on issues of family violence, and parent/teen relationships within the immigrant community.  I developed and performed Forum Theatre work with Puente Theatre for the Human Right's Commission; taught transformational theatre techniques including Playback Theatre for the B.C.Community Development Institute; and used a combination of Image, Forum, and Presentational Theatre for the Royal College Invited Lecture at the Canadian Psychiatric Association Annual Conference in Victoria in 2000. 

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