Personal and social change in context
of the Playback Theatre method Cover Image

Osobnostní a sociální změna v kontextu metody playback divadla
Personal and social change in context of the Playback Theatre method

Author(s): Veronika Nýdrlová
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně
Keywords: Playback Theatre; fiction; metaphor; experience; personal change; social change; social education

Summary/Abstract: The article approaches the concept of the personal change in the view of social educator working with the Playback Theatre method, which is one of the Applied Dramas used in many fields of work with people and is based on sharing personal stories which, among other things, brings community principles, the rituals of narration and listening, into society. This theoretical text focuses on how to understand the context of changes in human life and how they are iniciated by the method, because the method is only a medium, not a change itself, and what can be understood as a social change in the social-educating context.

  • Issue Year: 6/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 58-70
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English, Czech
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