In the current episode of Playback Theatre Talks I am very honored to have Jo Salas, the co-founder of Playback Theatre. 

After More than 40 years, Jo is still fascinated by the magic of playback theatre.

Jo was the artistic director of Hudson River Playback Theatre, which she founded in 1990 and she has written extensively about Playback Theatre.

Jo and me will talk about Jo's and Jonathan Fox's new book "Personal Stories in Public Spaces: Essays on Playback Theatre by Its Founders" and we will focus on trauma stories in playback (we start to talk about trauma after 29 minutes).

Jo and I will try to answer the following questions

-In which way trauma stories are different from other kinds of stories?

-What is the difference between different kinds of trauma Stories?

-How should we, as playbackers, work with Trauma stories?

-How can we attend to the audience or to ourselves when hearing a traumatic story?

We will also talk about gender in playback theatre and Jo's experience being co-founder of playback theatre with Jonathan Fox.

Thank you for Joining us.