STORYSCAPE

Melbourne Playback Theatre Company is a leading interactive theatre company working throughout Victoria creating performances and workshops that respond directly to individual community's stories and challenges. They aim to empower, entertain and affect change. Since its inception thirty years ago, Melbourne Playback has been using performance (actor based) improvisation with live music to engage with various community groups. The performances create, build and foster community, develop respect between individuals, address social inclusion, equal access and diversity while supporting a forum for cooperation, sharing and honesty. In a Playback performance, the facilitator invites audience's members to share experiences. From the audience's narratives, the performers create a piece of theatre instantaneously. It is the interaction of the sharing and ‘playing back' of these stories from which the performance is created. Storyscape has worked collaboratively with Melbourne Playback, using..

Primary location: Fitzroy Australia