Hobart Playback Theatre Co

Playback theatre is exciting improvised theatre where the stories, memories and perceptions of the audience are re-enacted spontaneously by a team of actors and a musician to create a performance that is both powerful and poignant.

It was created by American psychodramatist Jonathan Fox, who developed the idea of a spontaneous theatre that reflected back to a gathered audience their view of the world as they experienced it.

In a Playback Theatre event someone in the audience tells a story from their life, chooses actors to play the different roles, then watches as their story is given artistic shape and coherence.