DEEPENING YOUR PLAYBACK PRACTICE - Saturday 1st March 2025

at Clean Break, Kentish Town Road, London, NW5 2LB.

This all-day workshop (10am - 7pm) is for those who have completed Core Training in Playback or equivalent, and are looking to deepen their practice. The workshop costs £80.

Over the day we will:

• warm-up and connect playfully as a group

• consolidate and revise your current playback knowledge and practice

• explore and rehearse new forms to add to your playback repertoire

• put all this into practice through a relaxed playback performance for friends and family!

We will confirm performance timings once you book, so that you can invite friends and family along.

If you have any questions about Deepening your Playback Practice, please contact us.

INTENSIVE INTRO TO PLAYBACK THEATRE (3.5 days) - Friday 2nd May to Monday 5th May 2025

Following on from our popular Introduction to Playback Theatre in 2024, we're excited to offer this intensive Introduction Course over 3.5 days!

If you're new to Playback Theatre, or are feeling rusty and want to revisit the foundations, this is for you. We will explore the core forms, theory and ritual of Playback Theatre, and you'll get to apply your new skills straight away through a relaxed playback performance for friends and family.

Over these 3.5 days we will:

• connect creatively as a group, developing playfulness and trust

• explore the foundational forms of playback theatre, and connect these to theory, context and applications

• practice the core playback theatre rituals

• share our own stories to gain experience as tellers and support the playback practice

• put your new skills into practice straight away, with a playback showcase for friends and family!

We are committed to creating a safe and supportive learning environment. As such, we will keep the training group to a maximum of 12 people.

Who will deliver the training?

Our training team at London Playback Theatre consists of Lillie Stoute, Andi Haase, Ferran Luengo and Belinda Sherlock - all experienced playbackers with varying backgrounds in theatre pedagogy, applied theatre and creative therapy. You can find more out about each of us here.

How much does it cost?

It costs £300, all in.

There are two scholarships available - at £200 each all in - for global majority applicants (who identify as Black, Brown, Asian, Indigenous and/or Mixed Heritage).

What are the timings each day?

• Friday 2nd May: 4pm-8pm (with a break)

• Saturday 3rd May & Sunday 4th May: 11am-6pm (with 1 hour lunch break)

• Monday 5th May: 10am-5pm (with 1 hour lunch break). The playback performance timings on Monday are to be confirmed (likely 3-4pm).

What will I get out of this experience?

• Connection with other playful, creative people

• Plenty of time for playful, creative expression

• Good knowledge and understanding of the core principles, forms and rituals of Playback Theatre

• An immersion into the power of community storytelling and community theatre for social change

• The opportunity to showcase your playback skills with your friends and family, and get some performance experience under your belt

• The foundation you need to access more advanced Playback Theatre training in the future

• A certificate of participation!

Is the venue accessible?

The venue and studio are wheelchair accessible. If you have further access needs, please let us know when you book.

I have other questions!

Great! Please contact us on londonplayback@gmail.com and we'll do our best to answer them.

What's the cancellation policy?

• If you cancel your place before and including Friday 28th March, you will receive a full discount minus transaction fees (these are minimal).

• If you cancel your place anytime from Saturday 29th March to Friday 11th April, you will receive a 50% refund, minus transaction fees (these are minimal).

• If you cancel your place after 12th April, we will not be able to refund your place.

Rosemary Branch Theatre

A gorgeous audience, a cornucopia of stories!

Stories of deep friendship, stepping out of one’s comfort zone, grieving and rebuilding, looking for where to land, seeing dreams actually come true.

Thank you to everyone who joined us, and for “turning a roomful of strangers into a roomful of neighbours”!

“We need more of this: people coming together and sharing stories!” - Audience Member

Photo credit: Belinda Sherlock

Rosemary Branch Theatre

Thank you to our wonderful audience for the depth and breadth of your stories, for all the different moments that changed your lives!

From samba dancing, meditation, recovery and rugby to war, moving countries unexpectedly, family illness, indecision and setting healthy boundaries, you trusted us to enact so many facets of the human condition 🧡

This show reminded us what a heck of a privilege it is to do playback!

Photo credit: Lama Amine

Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - Innovation Hub

It was great to be back at HPFT to continue exploring that hefty, familiar theme of burn out. Stories of grief and celebration, of being both staff and service user, of endings we plan and those we can't plan, of taking time to heal. Stories that centred love, community and belonging.

What a process we're all in!

“Completely moved by it. Thank you for your performance and I look forward to the next one!” - Audience Member

Photo credit: Aga Rolkiewicz