Playback Theatre Now in Northampton, MA

Name: Playback Theatre Now in Northampton, MA
Start: 2025-08-13T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-13T21:00:00-04:00
Location: 160 Main St, Ste 9, Northampton, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01060

Schedule

Wed Aug 13 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

160 Main St, Ste 9, Northampton, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01060 | Northampton, MA

Join us for a night of playing, connecting, and witnessing! RSVP required — limited space.
A participant shares moments from their life. Then other participants "play back” the emotional, imagistic essence of what is shared. Both sharings and playbacks are done through simple movement, sound, words, costume, objects, and/or music.
We are on a journey individually and collectively. What is percolating in your journey? What are the nuances of our experience?
We welcome you to have all parts of yourself (inner voices, emotions, characters, qualities) expressed — as well as the relationships, archetypes, societal concerns (class, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, culture, physical/mental ability, religion), and other larger forces that affect you. Both the pulls and pushes, the lows and highs, the pain and the joys are all welcome.
We witness these depths of your sharing in the playback. Playing back each other's experience involves developing our listening — to each other, to the group, and to mystery.

Playback Theatre NOW (PTN) essential question is: Where are you in your evolution right now? We trust our experience, express it, and find our authenticity. Playback Theatre elicits empathetic listening, creativity, and articulation. Being a "player" in other participant's stories helps us explore new parts of ourselves. Witnessing your and others' stories being played back is transforming. We connect inner and outer, creating sacred work-play.

Playback Theatre is practiced in 70 countries. PTN is committed to serving diverse populations and addressing a variety of issues.

Come and join us in this powerful technique to give witness to ourselves and others through empathetic enactment. These open sessions are open to the community.
$30–$25–$20 sliding scale (abundant–regular–low).
Additional donations accepted.
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If money is a problem, please let us know and we can work something out. Workstudy is available.
More info: [email protected]
https://patrickcrowley.net/playbacktheatrenow
Looking forward to Playbacking with you!
Patrick Crowley
Founder and facilitator of Playback Theatre Now
Patrick Crowley has practiced theatre improv since 1986, including Playback Theatre, Action Theater, Psychodrama, Zany Angels Dance Theatre, and Insight Improvisation. He is also a dance improviser, bodyworker, yoga teacher, and somatic educator. Patrick first began practicing Playback Theatre regularly in 1987 and employed Playback Theatre in an expressive arts weekend, called the Longdance, that he co-led 4 times a year for over a decade. He also worked with Boston’s True Story Playback Theater troupe. He founded Playback Theatre Now in 2019 with Sky Halm and Gineen Cooper.