Michael Cheng is a playbacker from Singapore, he is the chairman of the Centre for Playback Theatre. He is the Artistic Director of Tapestry Playback Theatre and one of the founders of the playback community in Singapore. Michael is also the founder and admin of the biggest playback group on Facebook (Playback Theater Around the World).

Here are some of the questions Michael and me will be discussing:

How can we build a group or a community as playbackers?

What is the impact of being a member in several groups at the same time?

What is the role that Facebook is playing in building a community?

Does social media give a true representation of the playback community?

How does online playback affect the community of playbackers these days?

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How does playing for children is different than playing for adults? What should we keep in mind when working with a younger audience?  

Chetnaa is the founder of Rangbhumi, an Applied Theatre organisation based in Mumbai. She is training children in Playback Theatre in schools and communities and preforming mainly to children with her playback group  Ghumakkad.

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"A person who never made a mistake, never tried anything new" Albert Einstein once said.

In this week's episode I am hosting the International Playback Theatre Network (IPTN) president, Jori Pitkänen, in a compelling dialogue about the concept of mistakes in playback.

What is consider to be a mistake in playback? How can we work with a mistake we made? What mistakes can we do when working with traumatic stories? Can we "fix" mistakes?

Me and Jori will be talking about that and also about romance in playback (yes, again...), duo playback, taboos in playback and Jori's journey to playback.

Apart from his role at the IPTN, Jori is a talented playback conductor and actor, PHD student and a game designer. He is kind, wise and sensitive. I highly recommend you to get to know him through this playback talk.

Karina Bettina Gisler is a playback conductor and performer with 30 years of experience. She is also teaching playback all over the world.

Karina and I will talk about her personal journey as a playbacker which includes humor, romance and fighting for equality.

We will discuss Narrative Reticulation (starting at 0:25) as a tool that allows us to evaluate and understand better playback performances.

Aviva is the founder of "PLAYLIFE" ensemble. She is a former President of the IPTN, a teacher in the international leadership training and a legendary playbacker.

What is the role of innovation in playback and where does Aviva is placing herself on the spectrum between classical playback and innovative playback?

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This podcast is for playbackers, playback fans, art therapists and performers.

The purpose of the podcast is to share knowledge, to learn and to empower and support the playback theater community.

I will be hosting playbackers from all around the world to talk about different aspects of playback theatre and about their journeys as playbackers.