Ateneo - UPO

Playback Theatre is an original form of theatre based on improvisation and return, in which the audience or group members tell stories from their lives and watch them enacted on the spot.
Playback Theatre is used in a broad range of settings and fields.
Active methods of leading groups
Hints of sociodrama and psychodrama techniques
The origins of PBT
Main characteristics of PBT: spontaneity, creativity, artistic dignity, social interaction
Setting
Main roles: teller, performer/actor, conductor, musician, audience
Main expressive forms of PBT

Luigi Dotti "La forma della cura. Tecniche socio e psicodrammatiche nella formazione degli operatori educativi e della cura"
Franco Angeli-Psicoterapie 2003
Luigi Dotti "Storie di vita in scena. Il teatro di improvvisazione al servizio del singolo, del gruppo, della comunità" Ed. Ananke 2006

Teach through experience the main principles and the main expressive forms of Playback Theatre.
Offer a tool of work applicable to different and multiple group contexts, based on spontaneity, creativity, relation, listening, sharing and return, using the body, voice, movement as comunicative and artistic tools.

Curiosity, willingness to listen to yourself and others, to get involved, use your own body, voice, movement, as comunicative and artistic tools.

Active and experiential method

Students with disabilities or Specific Learning Disorders (SLD) or with Special Educational Needs (SEN) can request specific services and tools dedicated to them by contacting the Career Development and Coordination Staff and Student Services, and by consulting the dedicated page on the university website: https://uniupo.it/it/servizi/servizi-studenti-disabili-e-dsa. Once students with disabilities, SLD, or SEN have made contact with the university staff, they can reach out to the instructor responsible for the course regarding the adjustment of exam methods in relation to educational aspects.None

Oral and practical assessment

Playback Theatre is an original form of theatre based on improvisation and return, in which the audience or group members tell stories from their lives and watch them enacted on the spot.
Playback Theatre is used in a broad range of settings and fields.
Main characteristics of PBT: spontaneity, creativity, artistic dignity, social interaction
The creator of PBT: Jonathan Fox
The origins of PBT
Empathetic listening, cooperation between performers on the stage, the audience and the teller
Setting/ritual
Stories
Artistic factor
Lightness and depth
Main roles: performer, conductor, actor, musician, audience
Performance
Laboratories
Trasformative processes
Individual and community
Main expressive forms: stage presence, posture, voice, movement, short forms (including static or fluid sculptures, pairs, chorus), stories, vignettes
PBT and psichodrama: analogies and differences
Active methods of leading groups
Hints of sociodrama and psychodrama tecniques

Learning of main characteristics of Playback Theatre
Learning of main expressive forms
Learning of some active methods when leading groups
Knowing how to formulate hypothesis of application/projects in the socio-educative-healthcare field