Fall Playback Theatre Workshop


Playback Theatre

Moments of our lives can be touchstones, full of power and significance. Playback Theatre transforms personal stories told by audience members into theatre pieces on the spot using movement, ritual, music and spoken improvisation. Sometimes a story becomes myth, sometimes a realistic enactment: some stories are tragic; others are funny or illuminating.


The Training

Workshop participants will learn the subtleties of the Playback Theatre form refine acting and improvisation skills and share in the often profound experience of hearing each other's stories and bringing them to life. The Playback process develops intuition, insight, creativity and effective communication. It also creates community and connection among people by honoring the dignity, drama and universality in their stories. This training is for actors, teachers, therapists or anyone interested in creating art from the specific and universal in our experience.

Roni Alperin is a professional actor and director. He is a member of the Living Arts Playback Theatre Ensemble. Roni teaches Playback Theater in various settings and also directs New Beginnings Playback Theatre Company. He is completing his Masters Degree in counseling and drama therapy at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

 

Wednesdays, 7 to 9:30 pm

 

October 7 to December 23, 2009

 

$40 per session, 12 sessions $420

"Glitter & Razz Dramatic Play Space"

5951 College Ave. Oakland in the Rockridge District (near Claremont}

 

For further information please contact Roni at  

408-3349748, 510-5284712

ronialp@gmail.com