SO178 Playback Theatre

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Veronika Nýdrlová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Petra Ludvová Hašková, DiS. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Veronika Nýdrlová, Ph.D.
Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Dana Jakubjanská, DiS.
Supplier department: Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Prerequisites
SO_DV Drama education projects && SOUHLAS
SO_DV
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 22 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/22, only registered: 0/22, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/22
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This course introduces to students the method of playback theatre, which is one of the applied drama approaches, those are used also in educational and helping proffessions. The aim of the theatre is to open individual stories of audience and bring these stories through an improvisation of actors into community context and share it in interactive way in individual and social level. The course includes techniques of improvisation, work with stories and facilitation. Playback theatre is also introduced by theoretical and historical background.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course the student will be able to: - define basic concepts of playback theater; - describe the goals of playback theater; - summarize foreign approaches and events around playback theater; - plan the possibilities of using playback theater with different target groups; - work in the playback theater's team and know the regulations of each form, apply individual forms of playback theater in social and pedagogical practice.
Syllabus
  • Roots of playback theatre (PT) and its history, description of PT according to another apllied drama approaches, PT schools from abroad and other inspiration, posibility of use of PT, Czech context of PT, ritual in PT, conductor in PT, red line of a story in PT, actors in PT, musician in PT, short forms, long forms, PT group and performance, feedback.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • FOX, Hannah. Zoomy Zoomy. NY: Tusitala Publishing, 2010.
  • SALAS, Jo. Improvising real life : personal story in playback theatre : 20th anniversary edition. Fourth edition. New Paltz, NY: Tusitala, 2013, 178 stran. ISBN 9780964235090. info
  • FOX, Jonathan. Acts of service : spontaneity, commitment, tradition in the nonscripted thetre. New Paltz, NY: Tusitala, 1994, 283 stran. ISBN 0964235005. info
Teaching methods
Lecture, interconnection of music and movement, improvisation, work with a personal story, short forms, long forms, facilitation, feedback.
Assessment methods
Active participation in the course, final performance, feedback, group analysis of the work together, discussion. Credit.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
General note: Předmět je součástí profilace Dramatická výchova.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 2 dny.
Teacher's information
https://moodlinka.ics.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=2558
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