Growing old well: an evening of playback theatre

Name: Growing old well: an evening of playback theatre
Start: 2025-09-06T18:45:00+1000
End: 2025-09-06T21:00:00+1000
Location: BrisWest Centre

Sat, 6 Sep, 6:45pm - 9pm AEST

BrisWest Centre

Paddington QLD, Australia

Brisbane Playback Theatre

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Every scar has a story. Every transition has a tale. Every yard of progress has a yarn. So why not share yours and see what theatre plays out. Brisbane Playback Theatre Company invites you to participate in an evening of storytelling where your stories are transformed into theatre. Come and share your experiences and see it 'played back' in sound, movement and text by a team of performers. Alternatively, sit back to listen and watch the stories of others.

Please come at 6.45pm to hear the preshow music (harp and flute).

At 7pm the theatre begins, and then goes for about 90 minutes.

Feel free to stay back after the show to share supper and a cuppa (provided).

Image credit: Prasanna Subramanian, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Brisbane Playback Theatre

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Playback Theatre is a unique improvisional theatre with no script. The material for the performance comes from the audience. Assisted by the conductor, who holds a performance, people in the audience share moments and stories from their lives, which are then immediately re-enacted or “played back” spontaneously by a troupe of usually four actors and a muscian.

Actors and musician take on roles in a dramatic form and, using dance, movement, mine, music, dialogue, sound and imagination, the story or moment is played back in a creative and magical re-enactment. No Playback performance is like any other and no-one quite knows what to expect when they walk through the doors. That is the spontaneous nature of Playback, for actors and audience alike.

Communities and organisations use Playback to build their community, enable sometimes untold stories to be brought forward, acknowledge joyful and painful times and to value the contributions of people in their community. In essence Playback provides a unique opportunity to listen, learn and build on each others’ personal and community story.

Brisbane Playback Theatre Inc began in 1989 when Francis Batten initiated the Company. Since then many people have been part of the troupe, honouring people’s stories. Our members come from many disparate occupations and professions and are involved because of their love of this unusual, challenging, inspiring, inclusive form of theatre. Playback companies exist around the world and throughout Australia.

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Sat, 6 Sep, 6:45pm - 9pm AEST

BrisWest Centre

Paddington QLD, Australia

Hosted by Brisbane Playback Theatre