Working in Organisations

Truth & Disclosure – Daring to Connect

September 5, 2016

open disclosure as best practice    Last month some of our players participated in a role play. Role plays are a slight departure from our usual work, as instead of recreating an audience member’s story onstage, we are given a character and a situation which we then realize, for a particular scene or designated outcome….

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Truth & Disclosure

September 5, 2016

Last month some of our players participated in a role play. Role plays are a slight departure from our usual work, as instead of recreating an audience member’s story onstage, we are given a character and a situation which we then realize, for a particular scene or designated outcome. It’s a story, but with potentially…

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Our Human DNA is Hardwired for Story

May 31, 2016

  In March, we were invited to perform at a Greek Wellbeing Forum at the Hurstville Entertainment Centre. The day was geared to educate, inform and break the taboo in talking about mental health, especially depression. Somewhat surprisingly it was a truly joyous occasion.   Our troupe entered the Forum late, in a day of…

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Mad Hatter’s Tea Party – An Eye Witness Account

November 17, 2015

Playback’s Performance @ A Mad Hatter’s Tea Party – An Eye Witness Account   We [the Playback Team] arrived at the Auburn Community Centre to find a Mad Hatters Morning Tea in progress, a crowd of people in colourful hats, and lots of discussion going on. In each of the Centre’s rooms we saw people…

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Cultural Intelligence & Diversity in Action

October 15, 2015

How do you teach an organisation to not just engage with the theory of Cultural Intelligence and Diversity but also demonstrate how it works in practice? Well Playback Theatre Sydney believes it’s by incorporating personal story-telling and theatre into theory education as done recently with Sydney’s Liverpool Council.   The Council had been developing their…

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Leadership Communication

September 10, 2015

Sometimes it’s the juxtapositions in life that get things moving, and this was the case when Playback Theatre Sydney (PTS) worked with a well-known global brand recently. HR had organised their Leadership Team Development Day, and wanted to shake things up a bit – so they invited Playback Theatre to run an interactive story session…

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