LONDON PLAYBACK
True Heart Theatre is a London Improvisational Storytelling Theatre group specializing in the practice and performance of Playback Theatre as a service to the UK ethnic minority communities. Minority ethnic beneficiaries to date include Chinese (including British Born Chinese, mainland Chinese immigrants and Hong Kong & Taiwan international students), Malaysian, Bangladeshi, Turkish, Singaporean, British, New Zealanders, Canadian, French, Greek, Uruguayan and Mauritian. The theatre has worked in a wide range of settings ranging from theatre venues, to community centers to the museums and heritage sector.
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VIENNA PLAYBACK
Ad Hoc Theater is a non profit organization established for over 1 year and we have been working together since 5 years .The members of the theater are all social workers, psychologists, mediators. Among the members are migrants, and occasionally we play together with homeless people as well. Apart our regular performances we play for special groups (children, people with psychical disorder, migrants, elderly people) and on events in (multicultural neighborhoods, conferences related to social work, human rights). We have invitation to play regularly in community building events aiming to build bridges through playback and forum theater in neighborhoods of Vienna where migrants and Austrian leave together. Our contribution in this project will be to share our theatrical experience, working within multicultural neighborhoods and dealing with relevant conflicts.
BUDAPEST PLAYBACK
The scale of it’s training target group becomes wider: pupils, teachers, young people and adults with mental handicap, with disabilities, social and health care workers, people in marginal social groups and of diverse ethnicity. The number of applied methods and of methodologies is increasing: Improvisational Theatre (Playback), Drama in Education, Psychodrama, NLP.
Our contribution in this project will be to share our theatrical and developmental experiences, working within people from marginal social groups and ethnic minorities (such as Roma people). We aim to enrich our training experiences within this partnership and are intent on involving other professionals from Budapest and Hungary (artists, trainers, social workers) to learn how to use artistic elements in community work related to marginality in society.