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PLAYBACK THEATRE RESOURCE LIBRARY

Resources for playback theatre practitioners

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*ASU Symposium: ASU

*School of PT Leadership Essay: LE

*Dissertations about playback theatre: PhD

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Performing

Playback Instrument List

Essential Skill Areas for Playback Performances

Cube Construction, Courtesy of Hudson River Playback Theatre

Kids at PT Shows, Fe Day, Interplay, June 1996 performance

Administration Checklist for Contract Performance, Sydney Playback Theatre, Interplay, March 1998

Acting in Playback Theatre, Christian Penny, Interplay, September 2002

Listening with the Body on the Stage of Playback Theatre, Peltoniemi, Sisko, 1997. *Also in Finnish* LE

Company Life & Management

The Struggle to start a company, Ingeborg Vonholt (Meyer) and Mary Good, Interplay, March 1991

Men in Playback, Michael Clemente, with Jonathan Fox, Interplay, November 1991

Leadership in PT Companies: The Director Approach and the Group Consensus Approach. VanNess, Timothy. 1994. LE

Woven Together by Love: A Look at Company Life in PT . Urech, Sarah. 1996. LE

Reaching for "Diversity," "Inclusion," "Multiculturalism," in Playback Theatre, John L. Johnson, Interplay, March, 1996

What the PT Companies Earn, Päivi Ketonen, Interplay, November 1997

Playback Theatre, Diversity and Two Economies. Salas, Jo. 2005. ASU

PT & Diversity

Reaching for "Diversity," "Inclusion," "Multiculturalism," in Playback Theatre, John L. Johnson, Interplay, March, 1996

Using PT to Explore African-American Identity, Kimberly Rattley, 1997. LE

Playback Theatre, Diversity and Two Economies. Salas, Jo. 2005. ASU

PT vs. other approaches

Playback in Theatre for Development, Ananda Breed, 2002. Available: www.playbackcentre.org/resources_Breed.htm

On Theatre of the Oppressed, Psychodrama and Playback Theatre. Fox, Jonathan. 2004.

Available: www.playbackcentre.org/pt_compared_psy_and_to.htm.

Playback in Organizations

Playback Theatre. Halley, Sarah and Jonathan Fox. In The Change Handbook: Group Methods for Shaping the Future, edited by Holman, Devane and Cady (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006)

Issues in Organizations that Lend Themselves to a Playback Approach. Halley, Sarah. LE

PT in Education

Trends in PT for Education, by Jonathan Fox, Interplay, November 1992

Talks on Education, Mary Good, Deborah Pearson, & Bev Hosking, Interplay, April, 1994

Playback Theatre in Education, Francesca Benson, Interplay, November 1996

Le Theatre Playback et la Formation des Eleves Maitres. Auque-Dauber, Charlette. 2001. LE

Using Theater to Address Bullying. Educational Leadership. Salas, Jo. September 2005

Playback following civil and natural disaster

The Contribution PT can make to the Northern Ireland Situation McKeagney, Orla. 1998.

Playback and the Landscape of Disaster. Layman, William D. 2000.

"Da Day We See Wind in Grenada": Community Dialogue and Healing Through Playback Theatre. Rogers, Tracie. 2005.

Notes on the Katrina Relief Project in New Orleans, 2006. http://www.playbackcentre.org/Katrina_nyteam.htm