Turning Together: Playback Theatre, Oral History, Trauma, and Arts-Based Research in the Montreal Life Stories Project

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Turning Together: Playback Theatre, Oral History, Trauma, and Arts-Based Research in the Montreal Life Stories Project
Abstract
The Living Histories Ensemble performs an improvisational style of theatre known as Playback. In Playback Theatre, audience members are invited to tell personal stories related to the theme of the symposium, after which the troupe members will “play back” these stories using a variety of improvisational forms and techniques that incorporate sound, words, and movement.
Book Title
Remembering Mass Violence: Oral History, New Media and Performance
Place
Toronto, ON
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Date
2014
Pages
91-110
Language
en
ISBN
978-1-4426-4680-3
Citation
Sajnani, Nisha, Warren Linds, Alan Wong, and Lisa Ndejuru. “Turning Together: Playback Theatre, Oral History, Trauma, and Arts-Based Research in the Montreal Life Stories Project.” In Remembering Mass Violence: Oral History, New Media and Performance, edited by Steven High, Edward Little, and Thi Ry Duong, 91–110. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
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