PLAYBACK THEATRE RESOURCE LIBRARY

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*Full text article:   

*Kassel Symposium papers K (upon occasion of honorary doctorate of Jonathan Fox 2008) Full documentation

*ASU Symposium papers (2005):  ASU 

*School of PT Leadership Essays:  LE 

*Dissertations about playback theatre:  PhD

*Chapters from Gathering Voices: Essays on Playback Theatre. 1999  (Originally papers presented at the 1997 symposium at Kassel University, Germany). Presently out of print:  GV

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◊ Bibliography Selected references:

Adderley, Di.  Why do tellers tell?  2004.    LE

Aho, Jari.  Rules vs. Spontaenity.  2006.   LE

Arping, Marlies & Feldhendler, Daniel.  Practical Aspects from the Life of a Playback Theatre Ensemble.  1999.     GV

Auque-Dauber, Charlette. Playbacktheater – ein Beitrag zur Persönlichkeitsbildung künftiger Lehrer. In Schulpraktikum vorbereiten: Pädagogische Perspektiven für die Lehrerbildung, edited by Heinrich Dauber and Dietfrid Krause-Vilmar (Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt Verlag, 2005), 141-147.

Auque-Dauber, Charlette.  Le Theatre Playback et la Formation des Eleves Maitres.  2001.    LE

Ananda Breed. Playback in Theatre for Development. 2002.

Belschner, Wilfried. The Playback Theatre –From the Vantage Point of Consciousness Research
K In German

Bett, Robyn.  Being a Playback Performer.  2005.    ASU

Buhler, Cymbeline.  Form and Fulfillment: Character Development in Playback and Scripted Theatre.  2000.    LE

Charles, David.  A New Paradigm of Popular Play: Playback as Bakhtinian Novelisitc Theatre.   2005.  ASU

Christian, Susan.  Making a Significant Connection with People.  1998.    

Chung, Michele.  Playing Back Playback Theatre.  2004.    LE

Clayton, Penny.  Her Majesty and the Warrior Conductor:  Transformation and Safety in Playback Theatre.  2006.    LE

Cohen, Cynthia. “Creative Approaches to Reconciliation.” In The Psychology of Resolving Global Conflicts: From War to Peace, edited by Mari Fitzduff and Christopher E. Stout. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc., 2005.

Cohen, Cynthia. “Engaging with the Arts to Promote Coexistence.” In Martha Minow and Antonia Chayes, eds., Imagine Coexistence: Restoring Humanity After Violent Ethnic Conflict. New York: Jossey-Bass, 2003.

Day, Fe.  Playback Theatre-The Early Years: An Interview with Jo Salas.  2003. 

Day, Fe.  How do I know who or where I am until I hear what I say?  1999.    GV

Dauber, Heinrich. Abendländische Erzähltraditionen. In Praxisentwicklung im Bildungsbereich - ein integraler Forschungsansatz, edited by Reinhard Fuhr and Heinrich Dauber (Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt Verlag, 2002), 31-76.

Dauber, Heinrich.  Mnemosyme und Playbacktheatre.  2001.    LE

Dauber, Heinrich. "And they really listened to me...". Playback Theatre  with former Jewish citizens of Kassel who had to flee from the Nazis 60 years ago.  Interplay (Newsletter of the International Playback Theatre Network), Volume XI, Number 1, August 2000, 15-16.

Dauber, Heinrich.  Tracing the Songlines: Searching for the Roots of Playback Theatre.  1999.     GV

Dauber, Heinrich.  How Playback Theatre Works:  A Matter for Practical Research.  1999.    GV

Dauber, Heinrich and Jonathan Fox, eds. Gathering Voices: Essays on Playback Theatre. New Paltz, N.Y: Tusitala Publishing, 1999. [Published in Germany as Playbacktheater—wo Geschichten sich begegnen. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt Verlag, 1999.]  Out of print in English.

Dauber, Heinrich. Playback-Theater – alte Erzähltraditionen in neuer Form. In Publik (Kassel: Universität Gesamthochschule Kassel, 15.7.1997),  3. [Published as Refreshing Change. In Interplay. Newsletter of the International Playback Theatre Network, March 1998, Vol. VIII, 3].

Dauber, Heinrich.  Shaman like Playback Theatre.    

Dennis, Rea.  Crossing the Threshold: Tensions of Participation in Playback Theatre.  2005.    ASU

Dennis, Rea.  Public Performance, Personal Story: A Study of Playback Theatre.  2004.  Ph.D

Dennis, Rea. Risk & Expression: An ethic of performance, Interplay (Newsletter of the International Playback Theatre Network), Dec. 2005. http://www.playbacknet.org/interplay/journal/rea_ethics.html

Dotti, Luigi. Storie di vita in scena: Il teatro di improvvisazione al servizio del singolo, del gruppo, della comunitá.Torino: Ananke, 2006.

Feldhendler, Daniel. Playback Theatre, Life History and biographical Research K In German

Feldhendler, Daniel.  La vie mise en scène, théâtre et récit. In Molinié. M. (Hrsg.) : Biographie langagière et apprentissage plurilingue. Le Français dans le monde, Recherches et applications No. 39, Paris 2006, S. 155-168.

Feldhendler, Daniel. Théâtre en miroirs, l'histoire de vie mise en scène. Paris : Téraèdre, 2005.

Feldhendler, Daniel.  A la rencontre de l’Autre. La mise en scène de récits de vie et ses effets de transformation psycho-sociale. In Histoires de vie No. 4 : Dossier Histoires de Vie. Miroirs singuliers de la Culture. Rennes : Presses Universitaires de Rennes. Université de Haute Bretagne, 2003, 27-35.

Feldhendler, Daniel. Playback Theatre. In Gerd Koch und Marianne Streisand (Hg.) Wörterbuch der Theaterpädagogik. Berlin: Schibri Verlag, 2003, S. 225.

Feldhendler, Daniel. Augusto Boal and Jacob L. Moreno - Theatre and Therapy. In Schutzman, M., Cohen-Cruz, J., (eds.), Playing Boal. London : Routledge, 1993, pp. 87-109.

Floodgate, Simon. The Shamanic Actor: Playback Theater Acting As Shamanism.  2006.    LE

Fox, Hannah. Playback Theatre. In Interactive and Improvisational Drama: Varieties of Applied Theatre and Performance. Adam Blatner, Ed. (with Daniel Wiener). Iuniverse, 2007. *new*

Fox, Hannah.  The Beginnings: Reflecting on 25 years of Playback Theatre.  2000.  

Fox, Hannah.  Weaving Playback Theatre with Theatre of the Oppressed. 2007.   

Fox, Jonathan. Playback Theatre in Burundi: Can Theatre Transcend the Gap? Compendium of Applied Theatre (London: Rutledge: forthcoming 2007).

Fox, Jonathan.  On Theatre of the Oppressed, Psychodrama and Playback Theatre. 2004. Available:  www.playbackcentre.org/pt_compared_psy_and_to.htm.

Fox, Jonathan.  A Personal History: An Introduction to Gathering Voices.  1999.    GV

Fox, Jonathan.  A Ritual for Our Time.  1999.     GV

Fox, Jonathan.  Emerging from Silence:  Uschi Sperling talks to Jonathan Fox.  1999.     GV

Fox, Jonathan.  Epilogue:  The Journey to Deep Stories.  1999.    GV

Fox, Jonathan. Acts of Service: Spontaneity, Commitment, Tradition in the Nonscripted Theatre (New Paltz: Tusitala, 1994). [Published as Renaissance einer alter Tradition: Playback Theater. Köln: InScenario Verlag, 96].

Fox, Jonathan. Die inszenierte persönliche Geschichte im Playback-Theater [Dramatized Personal Story in Playback Theater]. Psychodrama: Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis (Germany). Heft 1 (June 1991), 31-44.    

Jonathan Fox, playback theatre founder:  Complete publications

Friedler, Rasia.  El Teatro Playback: Una Pasion vislumbrada en Nepal.  Un diagolo con Jonathan Fox.  2004. 

Garavelli, Maria Elena.  Teatro Espontaneo y Construccion de la Memoria Colectiva.    

Gisler, Karin.  Saying Yes: Playback Theatre as a Metaphor for Life.  1995.    LE

Good, Mary.  Who is Your Neighbour?  Playback Theatre and Community Development.  2003.    Excerpt in Interplay (Newsletter of the International Playback Theatre Network), Volume XIII, No 3-May 2003. http://playbacknet.org/interplay/Previousissues/April%2003/mary.htm

Halley, Sarah and Jonathan Fox. Playback Theatre. In The Change Handbook: Group Methods for Shaping the Future, edited by Holman, Devane and Cady (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006)

Halley, Sarah.  Issues in Organizations that Lend Themselves to a Playback Approach. 1997.    LE

Haneji, Kamokazu.  What Playback Theatre Did Provide: Experience through Playback Theatre at Four Institutions for Mental Disorders.  With Japanese translation.  1998.    LE

Harris, Fred.  Structure weds Impulse.  2005.    ASU

Hayes, Darby.  Empowering the Outcast:  Past versus Future Storytelling.  2006    LE

Heppekausen, Jutta.  Theater der Begegnung –Playbacktheater als ein Beitrag zu einem (gewalt-)freieren Zusammenleben.   

Hoesch, Folma.  The Red Thread: Storytelling as a Healing Process.  1999    GV

Hokannen, Minna.  Why did Sarah laugh?   2006.    LE

Hosking, Bev and Penny, Christian.  Playback Theatre as Methodology. 

Hosking, Bev & Jenny Hutt. “Playback Theatre: A Creative Resource for Reconciliation.”  Working paper of the Recasting Reconciliation through Culture and the Arts fellowship program, Center for Ethics, Justice & Public Life, Brandeis University: http://www.brandeis.edu/programs/Slifka/vrc/papers/index.html

Howard, David.  My Soul and Playback Theatre.  2002.  LE

Huhn, Markus.  Playback Theatre:  Soziale Struktur der Bewegung im deutschsprachigem Raum und die politische Dimension.  2001.     LE

Ishii, Hiroko.  A Comparative Study of Rituals seen in Playback Theatre and Japanese Tea Ceremony.  1998.    LE

Kanazawa, Mizuho.  Culture and Playback Theatre. 2004.   LE

Kao, Yu Chen.  Applying Playback Theatre in Community Mothers Groups:  Witch Playback Theatre.  2006   LE

Kaposvari, Aniko & Ed Watzke: Playback-Theater und Mediation. In Streiten Kulturen? Konzepte und Methoden einer kultursensitiven Mediation by G Mehta & K Rückert. Wien: Springer, 2004, 173-179.
 

Katzenbach, Mimi.  The Face of the Story:  A Unifying Psychology for the Art of Playback Theatre.  1994.    LE

Kedrock, Alexandra.  Letting in the Breeze:  Playback Theatre as a Spiritual Practice.  2004.   LE

Kiely, Arlene.  Playback Theatre within a Faith Community.  2004.   LE

Kintigh, Monica.  Peer Education: Building Community through Playback Theatre Action Methods.  1998 Ph.D

Kristel, Jennie.  Cultural Exchanges: Playback Theatre in Bangladesh.   

Lange, Wiebke. Bericht aus der Projektgruppe ‚Darstellendes Spiel’ K

Larkinson, Louise.  Attunement in Playback Theatre.  2001.    LE

Law, Agnes.  Win, Lose, or Draw: A Self-Reflected Journey of a Young Asian Playback Leader in Learning the Art of Leadership in Leading Playback Theatre group .  2006.  LE

Layman, William D.  Playback Theatre and the Landscape of Disaster.  2000.

Lipsker, Carmela. Constructing Nursing Knowledge via Playback Theatre in Professional Training of Community Nurses: A Study on the Effect on Learning and Behavior Patterns.  2005.    Ph.D

Lotti, Nadia.  Il Rituale nel Playback Theatre e Confronto Alcune Teorie Anthropologiche.  1998. 

Mager, Ingrid.  Playback Theatre:  Moral und Leidenschaft.  2006   LE

McKeagney, Orla.  The Contribution Playback Theatre can make to the Northern Ireland Situation.  1998.    LE

McKenna, Tarquam.  Layers of Meaning:  Research and Playback Theatre-A Soulful Construct.  1999.     GV

Metz, Susan.  Fragments Toward an Exploration of the Role of Playback Theatre in Societal Transformation.  2006.  LE

Moloney, Sinead.  The Collective Tongue:  An Exploration of Chorus Theatre.  2001.    LE

Moura, Mario.  An Open Space for Everyone.  2006.    LE

Munakata, Kayo. Playback Theatre Nyumon [Introduction to Playback Theatre]. Tokyo: Akashi Shoten, 2006.

Munakata, Kayo.  Playback Theatre for Japanese People.  1995.    LE

Nash, Steve and Rowe, Nick.  Safety, Danger and Playback Theatre. 

Norris, Pamela.  PT and Interconnectedness--How can this happen?  2006.    LE

Oivo, Marja.  How Supervision can Support the Work of a Playback Theatre Leader.  2004.    LE

Østern, Anna-Lena. Playback theatre as art form, from the point of view of arts education K

Paradi, Jozsef.  Playback Work with Dreams.  1999.    GV

Performing Playback Theatre Training DVD. Produced by Hudson River Playback Theatre and the Centre for Playback Theatre. 2006.

Park-Fuller, Linda M.  Beyond Role Play: Playback Theatre and Conflict.  2005.    ASU

Park-Fuller, LM. Audiencing the Audience: Playback Theatre, Performative Writing, and Social Activism. Text and Performance Quarterly, 23 (July 2003): 288-310.

Park-Fuller, Linda M.  Playback Theatre and Pschooncology: Performed Ethnography in the Arena of Health Care.  1997. 

Park Fuller, Linda M.  Playback Theatre, Communication Pedagogy, and Community Engagement: Improvising Third Space and Mutable Selves Through Narrative Performance. 
Patterson, Paula.  Acting Out in Hospital Corridors:  Playback Theatre in a Medical Setting.  2004.    LE

Peltoniemi, Sisko.  Listening with the Body on the Stage of Playback Theatre. 1997.   LE

Piikkila, Eija.  Asking the Tellers:  A Story about Being a Teller in a Playback Performance.  2006.    LE

Playback Theatre Instrument List.

Plotkin, Joel.  Theater that Keeps Darkness at Bay:  Arts Now Conference Presentation. 1999. 

Plotkin, Joel.  Insight and Change:  Anagnoresis and Peripeteia 

Raju, Priya.  Social Support Among Medical Students:  An Exploration Using Playback Theatre.  2005. 

Rattley, Kimberly.  Using Playback Theatre to Explore the African-American Identity.  1997.    LE

Rautiainen, Reijo.  Using the Magic Shop in a Work Counselling Group.  2002.    

Robb, Heather.  Playback's Position in the Tradition of Popular Theatre.  2001.    

Rogers, Tracie.  "Da Day We See Wind in Grenada": Community Dialogue and Healing Through Playback Theatre.  2005.   

Rosado-Perez, Jose O.  Teatro Espontaneo de la Habana: Using Playback Theatre to Educate about living with HIV/AIDS in Cuba.  2005.    ASU

Rowe, Nick. Playing the Other: Playing the Other: Dramatizing Personal Narratives in Playback Theatre. London: Jessica Kingsley, 2007.  *new*

Rowe, Nick.  Personal Stories in Public Places: An Investigation of Playback Theatre.   2005.  PhD

Rowe, Nick.  Playing the Other:  The Ethical Limitations of Playback Performing.  2005.   ASU

Rowe, Nick.  A Dialogue between Wildness and Order: Playback Theatre and Hermeneutic Play.2005.    ASU

Salas, Janet.  Doing Playback Theatre in a Foreign Language: Learning Language, Learning Culture, Learning Identity.  2006.    LE


Salas, Jo. Do My Story, Sing My Song: Music therapy and Playback Theatre with troubled children (New Paltz, N.Y.: Tusitala Publishing, 2007.) *new*
Salas, Jo and Gauna, Leslie, eds. Half of My Heart [La Mitad de Mi Corazón]: True Stories told by immigrants in Dutchess County, NY. New Paltz, NY: Hudson River Playback Theatre, 2006; Revised Edition: Tusitala Publishing, 2008. In English and Spanish) 

Salas, Jo.  Playback Theatre, Diversity and Two Economies.  2005.  ASU

Salas, Jo. Using Theater to Address Bullying. Educational Leadership, September 2005 

Salas, Jo.  A Note on What We Mean by "Dialogue" in Playback Theatre.    2005.

Salas, Jo. Improvisando la vida real. Montivideo: Nordan, 2005. [The Spanish translation of Improvising Real Life].

Salas, Jo. Playback Theatre: A Frame for Healing. In Current Approaches in Drama Therapy, Penny Lewis & David Read Johnson, Eds. Springfield, IL: Charles C Thomas, 2000.

Salas, Jo.  What is good Playback Theatre? 1999.    GV

Salas, Jo. Playback Theatre: Children Find Their Stories. In Handbook for Treatment of Attachment-Trauma Problems in Children by Beverly James. New York: Lexington, 1994.

Salas, Jo. Improvising Real Life: Personal Story in Playback Theatre (New Paltz, N.Y.: Tusitala Publishing, 1993). [Translated into Japanese by Shakai-Sangyo, Tokyo, 1997. Translated into German by Alexander Verlag, Berlin, 1998.]

Salas, Jo. Music in Playback Theater. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 19, (1992), 13-18.

Salas, Jo. Culture and Community: Playback Theater. The Drama Review, Vol. XXVII(1983), 2, 15-25.

Jo Salas, playback theatre co-founder: Additional publications

Scherbach, Robert.  Playback Theatre ist der direkte Zugriff ins Herz.  1997.    LE


Schmidt, Anka. Report from the project group ‚drama education’ K


Schnarr, Charles.  Sharing Leadership and Leadership Styles:  A Journey towards BOTH-AND and away from EITHER-OR (Supported by the Tao).  2004.    LE

Shoshan, Nurit.  The Portrayal of Stories at the Playback Theatre in a Time of Crisis.  2002.     LE

Sicouri, Tatiana.  Intervista a Jonathan Fox. 2002. 

Stevenson, John.  The Fourth Wall and the Third Space.  1995.    LE

Strekas, Jennifer.  Our Voices Define Our Worth: An Investigation into Alleviating Teacher Burnout Through Playback Theatre.    

Swallow, Judy.  Health and Healing for the Playback Actor.  1994.    LE

Tam, Janet & Fung, Emily.  A Story to Tell: Advocacy with Playback Theatre.  2005.  ASU

Tam mei Hing, Janet & Michele Chung, Eds. Chorus: Voices of the Playback Theatre Communities in Hong Kong, Macau and Mainland China. Hong Kong: Arts with the Disabled Association, 2005.

Tanaka, Kyoko.  Can Playback Theatre be Today's Storytelling?  1996.     LE

Tobler, Marianne.  Role selection – frustration and pleasure.  1995. LE Also in German as Rollenwahl - Lust und Qual.

Ullrich, Birgit.  Playback Theatre im Fremdsprachenunterricht.  (Playback Theatre in Learning Teaching).  2001.     LE

Urech, Sarah.  Woven Together by Love: A look at Company Life in Playback Theatre.  1996.    LE

Van Ness, Timothy C.  Leadership in Playback Theatre Companies:  A "Director" Approach and the "Group Consensus" Approach.  1994.    

Witte, Katharina.  Sawu Bone = Ich Sehe Dich; Playback Theatre ein unterstuzendes Verfahren fur Beratungsprozesse.  2004.     LE

Wright, Peter.  Playback Theatre: An Investigation into Applied Theatre and Communications in Meaning, with Specific Reference to Education and Health.  PhD

Wynters, Lori. Stories From the Inside Out: Playback Theatre in Bedford Hills Women's Prison. In The Arts, Education and Social Change, Powell and Speiser, eds. Peter Lang Press, 2005.

Wynters, Lori.  Constructing Knowledge through Playback Theatre.  1996.    LE

Wynters, Lori.  Toward a Pedagogy of Inclusivity: Building Community in the College Classroom with Psychodrama and Playback Theatre.  1996.  PhD

Zankay, Andras.  The Teller's Story and Personal Growth.  1999.    GV

Zwiebel, Ralf. Playback Theater und Psychoanalyse K