RESOURCES
Centre for Playback Theatre and
School for Playback Theatre
Administrative Offices are located in New Paltz, New York, USA 12561
PO Box 714, New Paltz, NY, USA 12561
Tel: 1-845-255-8163
Fax: 1-845-255-1281
Website: www.playbackcentre.org
Email: playbackcentre@hvi.net
Director: Jonathan Fox
Operations Manager: Angela Kozlakowski
International Playback Theatre Network (IPTN) is a worldwide network supporting all people interested in Playback Theatre.
Website: www.playbacknet.org
The IPTN hosts an International Playback Theatre Festival every four years somewhere in the world: Sydney, Australia (1992), in a village north of Helsinki, Finland (1993), in Olympia, Washington (1995), Perth, Australia, (1997), York, England (1999) and Shizuoka, Japan (2003), Sao Paulo, Brazil (2007).
The IPTN produces the journal of Playback Theatre, Interplay. You can download back issues from The Centre of Playback Theatre website www.playbackcentre.org or IPTN website www.playbacknet.org.
BOOKS/DVD/CD’s
Available at http://www.playbackcenter.org/products_Itemized.htm
Performing Playback Theatre Training DVD
— Produced by Hudson River Playback Theatre and the School of Playback Theatre
Improvising Real Life: Personal Story in Playback Theatre
— Jo Salas, 1993
Acts of service:
Spontaneity, commitment, tradition
in the nonscripted theatre
— Jonathan Fox, 1986
Gathering Voices:
essays on playback theatre
— Edited by Jonathan Fox
and Heinrich Dauber, 1999 (also in German)
Playing the Other: Dramatizing Personal
Narratives in Playback Theatre
— Nick Rowe, 2007
Half of My Heart [La Mitad de Mi Corazón]: True Stories told by immigrants in Dutchess County, NY
Tusitala Publishing, 2008. In English and Spanish
— Edited by Jo Salas and Leslie Gauna
Do My Story, Sing My Song: Music Therapy and Playback Theatre with Troubled Children
A vivid account of using Playback Theatre and music with emotionally disturbed children.
— Jo Salas
Listen and Remember CD
A collection of diverse and easy songs to sing with groups
— Jo Salas and Friends
PLAYBACK THEATER RESOURCE LINKS
Playback School link resource library
http://www.playbackschool.org/resources_mediumlist.htm
Interplay - Playback newsletters 1999 - present
http://playbacknet.org/about/interplay/
Dissertations, Essays, etc. about Playback Theater
http://www.playbackschool.org/resources_longlist.htm
Playback Theater in the Press
http://www.playbackschool.org/pr_playback%20in%20the%20news_HOMEPAGE.htm