Macarona Playback Troupe to perform at Balcon Heliopolis

CAIRO – 28 September 2017: Macarona Playback Theater Troupe will perform “Playback Theater” night at Balcon Heliopolis on October 5.

Macarona Playback Theatre Troupe is formed after Dawar’s Center Playback Theater workshops.

Improvisation is the key word of this theatrical form. The process of the performance consists of a communication between the audience and the actors on the stage.

The audience tells or introduces a personal experience, and then the actors re-act it on stage, according to the event’s official page.

“Playback” theatre is considered a part of improvisational theatre, which is a modern theatrical form. The performance based on a spontaneous dialogue, characters, plot and conflict.

It is influenced with more modern theatrical forms such as psyhco-theatre and drama therapy, in addition to folk story telling.

The aims of “Playback” theatre are various. Mainly, improving enjoyable theatre based on multi voices, documentation of certain situations, self expression, psychological therapy, and education.

“Playback” theatre is currently introduced in more than 60 places around the world.

In the Middle East, there is a school for “Playback” theatre teaching and training.

The Arab School of Playback Theatre Programs has many branches in different Arab countries such as Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon. In addition, they organize workshops in India.