Workshops &
Performances

In this workshop, we will explore how the Blues chorus can deepen the emotional layer of playback, allowing the story to resonate not only through action but also through sound, musicality, and collective expression.

For playback actors, this form opens new pathways for listening, spontaneity, and ensemble awareness. It strengthens the ability to hold and support the protagonist while remaining creatively active on stage.

For performing groups, the Blues chorus offers a rich theatrical language that can elevate performances—creating atmosphere and emotional depth.

The Blues chorus is especially suited for reflecting the voice of the protagonist—giving expression to inner conflicts, social context, and unspoken layers of the story—while also functioning as a performative musical form that can be integrated into performances.

No previous experience in singing is required—only curiosity, openness, and a willingness to explore your voice.

If you have ever been entranced by the watching of a playback story, you will know that at some point, there is a "Golden Moment" which elevates the story from the everyday to the realm of the universal. This moment is almost never the result of a clever word or phrase, almost invariably it is expressed in movement, emotion or music. Sometimes it is found in an easily identifiable conflict or climax, but often it arises out of the interplay on stage and can come and go without being fully breathed into life. In this workshop, we will explore story structure, embodied listening and being fully alive when the "Golden Moment" arrives. We will primarily focus on long form stories, but it is equally applicable to other forms.

Our bodies are powerful, sensitive, and versatile tools for telling stories. Let's drop into, use, play with, enjoy, and see what emerges from our body.

Let it enable us to explore meaning and story by translating ideas and feelings into different types of movement — both concrete and metaphorical.

This workshop will hold space for the dynamic between cultural differences and shared cultural ground, inviting participants to explore how stories move across languages, identities, and cultural worlds. We will approach Playback Theatre as a creative playground where identities can appear and disappear, and stories can move between what is visible and what is hidden — between the foreign and the familiar.

Inspired by the role theory of Robert Landy, we will search within each Playback story for its living constellation of roles. Through movement and voice, we will practice shifting between roles — including counter-roles — allowing different qualities and identities to stand side by side. Enriched by the rhythms of folklore, voice, and musical expression, narratives will be invited to coexist and transform into collective art.

Space Jump is a dynamic improvisational structure built on evolving stage images.

Through playful exercises, participants explore dramatic monologues, physical tableaux, theatrical entrances and exits, and jumps in time and space.

The workshop culminates in using the form to perform layered and surprising playback stories.

We will dive into a few fairy tales written by the Czech writer Božena Němcová. Let's watch who is who — and who we are — in these beautiful stories, which carry hope across nations, no matter what culture you come from.

I will do my best to choose stories that are not widely known. Božena Němcová was a 19th-century writer who addressed many topics that are still important today.

In recent years, the world has changed a lot; one might even say it is sliding into an abyss. In these times of transformation, change, and uncertainty, all of us are rethinking our perception of ourselves and the essence of what is happening, the future, and perhaps even the past. Music and singing can be a lighthouse in this stormy sea where the shores are not visible, because it is often the bridge between the conscious and unconscious.

In this workshop, we will all sing. We will search for our actual and inner voices to sing true stories. Those songs will be about what is important in our lives, about our internal compass, about those parts that have long been asking for attention, and about the happiness of release and breath.

We will learn the Playback Theatre Singing Form: 'Hero's Path, The Beginning'. This form will make it easier to play the story of transformation in our lives through singing.

For whom? For experts and beginners in Playback Theatre. Everyone can sing. All we need is the courage to start.

What happens when quieter voices are overlooked or overrun by louder ones? How much space do we give to others, and how much space do we allow ourselves to take — in life and on stage?

In times of growing polarisation, separation, and disconnection — shaped by the speed of life, political realities, and the ways people relate to themselves and others — sensitivity and awareness can fade. How are we listening to one another? Are we truly making space for others or simply pushing through without noticing those around us?

This workshop explores spatial, physical, and emotional awareness through movement, presence, and dialogue, inviting participants to reflect on how we listen, how we support, and how we carry and are carried. Through embodied and relational exercises inspired by improvisation and movement practices, participants will deepen their perception of self and others while experimenting with ways to bring deeper listening, awareness, and connection into their Playback Theatre practice.