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Playback Theatre: Inciting Dialogue and Building Community through Personal Story
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 51, Number 4 (T 196), Winter 2007
- pp. 89-105
- Article
- Additional Information
The Playback Theatre method is humble: trained performers act out life stories volunteered by audience members. Playback Theatre's goal is to illuminate social problems and resolve them. Like Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, Playback Theatre strives to give voice and visibility to those overlooked and ignored.