After more than a year of event-planning, logistics, research, writing, and peer-review, I’m excited to announce that I’ve just published a text book! (It’s so much more than a textbook actually… technically it’s an entirely FREE Open Access online educational resource, consisting of a collection of videos and a 55-page guidebook.) Huge thanks to my partner Heidi Winters Vogel, along with Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts, Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech Libraries, Wabash College and all the companies featured in the archive: The Ume Group, Pangea Playback Theatre, and World Playback Theatre.
To read the official press release, click here.
To explore the archive and guidebook on VTechworks, click here: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/104420
Storytelling on Screen: An Online Playback Theatre Archive and Guidebook
Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts and Virginia Tech Publishing are happy to announce publication of Storytelling on Screen: An Online Playback Theatre Archive and Guidebook.
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.
Launch Event (Virtual)
Tuesday, October 12, 2021 10-11am PDT (Los Angeles) / 1-2pm EDT (New York) Register in advance.
Join editors Jordan Rosin & Heidi Winters Vogel for a short, online launch event featuring a demonstration of how to navigate the archive, plus a Q&A. The editors will talk about the process of creating full-length recordings of Playback events and why they think they are useful.