Playback Theatre “Here and Now”
the theatre of your story
About Playback Theatre
 improvisational theatre
 it plays back personal stories from the audience
 everything is spontaneous (the stories, the music and enactment)
It’s created in 1975г. in USA by Jonathan Fox and Jo Salas. 40 years later
with International Playback Theatre Network it’s spread all over the world.
It’s used successfully not only for it’s art qualities, but for its huge social
meaning. It has strong ethics- integrity, tolerance, understanding and
positive personal and social change trough art. People can gain insight,
catharsis, connection, and self-expression through telling their stories and
participating in enacting stories of others.
Realization
 Conductor – communication with audience, the connection between actors and audience
Musician- with lots of musical instruments he creates special music for every single scene.
Actors- between 4 and 6, trained in creativity and spontaneous theatre. They listen in a
specific way and recognize the important things in the story. They use their imagination and
create theatre few seconds after they here the story.
Properties and stage set- the only thing we use is cloths in different colors and some
chairs
Continuance- an hour and a half for every performance
Space – it’s easy to adapt almost in every space
Playback Theatre “Here and Now”
It’s established in 2013 by Tzveta Baliyska- actress, teacher and psycho
dramatists.
Until now the company has 28 performances in different spaces for various
audience
 In addition to our monthly performances we are often invited to different
festivals and conferences
The only Bulgarian member of International Playback Theatre Network.
Tzveta Baliyska will be the first Bulgarian to attend European Playback
Gathering in Amsterdam, November 2014
In Bulgaria Playback Theatre is known only to specialist and our mission is to
introduce it widely
Beyond borders and out of comfort zone
Playback gives opportunity to see ourselves and others from different point
of view, to change the way we see life and to understand it better.
 It has social meaning because it unites communities and helps people
connect trough theatre and music.
In our company we believe magic can be part of everyday life if we allow
ourselves to leave the comfort zone. Every playback performance is a little
piece of magic.
«The need of telling and listening to stories is deeply needed for Homo
sapience- after subsistence but before love and roof. Millions are survived
without love and home, but no one- in silence .»
Reynolds Price
Playback Theatre “Here and Now”- video
and membership page
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr984loKbgo
To see our membership page choose Bulgaria from
“group members” menu:
http://www.playbacknet.org/drupal/community
A Playback performance cannot be easily described it can only be
experienced because it’s unique and every participant experience it
differently.
You are very welcome to visit our next performances
29 April 2014, 27 May 2014, 24 June 2014 - 19,30h
where: art place +tova, street: Marin Drinov 30
link to map:
http://www.bgmaps.com/link/3DE67795565CF26C2A69EF51B738E2F5
More information:
Facebook: Playback Theatre “Here and Now”
theatrehereandnow.wordpress.com
phone: +359 886 19 44 92