The following recipes, or games, are intended to be used as reference and study for the college course: Improvisation. This format has been set up to help with ease of quick learning and immediate application. Bon Appétit !
Playback Theatre is a form of community-centered storytelling theater where the audience tells stories, which are then reflected by a company of actors and musicians. Storytelling on Screen: An Online Playback Theatre Archive and Guidebook is an open education resource consisting of a collection of full-length recordings of online Playback Theatre performances, and a 55-page explanatory guidebook. The guidebook, featuring a foreword by Playback Theatre co-founder, Jo Salas, explains the adaptation to online performances and some of the key concepts, roles, and forms involved in online Playback Theatre. The resource as a whole is suitable for a wide range of theatre students in courses such as applied theatre, theatre for social justice, improvisation, theatre appreciation, or acting. The guidebook contains hyperlinks to specific sections of the archive where students can see a given form or concept in action, allowing for a comparison of how different companies approach a given form.
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Table of Contents
Foreword by Jo Salas
How to Use the Archive and Guidebook
Introduction to the Project
I. The Archive
Performance #1 World Playback Theatre: "New Beginnings"
Performance #2 The Ume Group: “Voices in the Stone” at Virginia Tech
Performance #3 Pangea Playback Theatre: “What Now?”
II. The Guidebook
What is Playback Theatre?
Roles
Concepts
Forms
Further Reading, Listening, and Viewing
Appendix I: Adding to this Archive
Appendix II: Additional Viewing
Technical Theatre II (Intermediate)
CHAPTER 1: JOBS IN TECHNICAL THEATRE
CHAPTER 2: WORKING IN A NEW VENUE
CHAPTER 3: PERFORMANCE ETIQUETTE
CHAPTER 4: THE ACTOR SCENE BREAKDOWN
CHAPTER 5: SCENERY
CHAPTER 6: STAGE PROPERTIES
CHAPTER 7: STAGE LIGHTING
CHAPTER 8: COSTUMES
CHAPTER 9: SOUND
CHAPTER 10: BLOCKING NOTATION
CHAPTER 11: PRODUCTION REPORTS
CHAPTER 12: CUEING SCRIPTS
Access also available here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ibRKS2v_qeQwXuZHKAvb2I0jAn7GwCSM
These materials were developed in a Round 15 Affordable Learning Georgia Textbook Transformation Mini-Grant for use with the open textbook Theatrical Worlds by Charles Mitchell at the University of Florida. Materials include:
PowerPoint Presentations
Test Banks
Videos