Imagine an interactive, improvised performance.

Audience members share emotions from their daily lives, or from sweet, hidden memories.

These stories--be they short or long, light-hearted or painful--are almost immediately presented through music, movement and metaphor.

Since there is no script, there will be no improvisation until the audience feels comfortable enough to share.

Every story is a gift to transform, to transcend, to be heard and acknowledged.

There is no judgement, and the stories stay within the assembled group.

Will you be a teller, musician, actor or conductor today?

How do we honour each emotional journey accurately, respectfully and artistically?

The experience of seeing one's own story played back can be surprising, insightful or cathartic.

The experience of watching someone else’s story being played back

can stir up powerful feelings of resonance, dissonance or remembrance.

Playback theatre is a form of applied theatre that focuses on community engagement.

Some believe in its therapeutic qualities, while others are excited by the possibility of social change.

The first playback theatre company was founded by Jonathan Fox and Jo Salas in 1975, 

and the form is now actively practised around the world.

As we listen and we witness, we are united by our common humanity, whether ordinary or extraordinary.