An innovative format where members of the audience share a personal story and watch it being enacted, on-the-spot. Playback helps create ‘safe spaces’ where people can openly discuss on various topics leading to an overall more evolved understanding of various perspectives. The deep self reflection that it enables is therapeutic in nature.
A format where there are no spectators and only ‘spect-actors’ who are participants in the creation of the drama. The participants are given the power, using the techniques of Theatre of the Oppressed format, to uncover the root cause of their problems and how they can act to change the situation.
First Drop Theatre combined Playback Theatre with the classical Indian tradition of Oral storytelling as a means to explore how we can tap into Indian culture and integrate it with Playback Theatre. We had Aparna Jaishankar, a renowned storyteller, share stories from Indian Mythology and Folk tales. These stories were used to open up the audience to reflect more on their personal journey on that theme. We have explored themes like adapting to change, relationships, decision making, resilience, and more through this endeavour and there are many more in the pipeline!
We perform to scripts that are developed in-house, however we are also open to exploring new script ideas. If you have original pieces of writing and want to discuss your scripts with us, please contact us.
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