Friday, August 01, 2014

Our performance @ Taiwan Playback Gathering 2014

Please enjoy the photos of our second overseas performance (the first was in Cambodia many years back!). 

A tremendously humbling and beautiful experience for all of us involved. We were definitely honoured and privileged to be there, to learn, to exchange and to serve the stories.

Our gratitude to 南飛嚼事 and the Taiwan Playback Theatre Association for inviting us! 

Many thanks to the National Arts Council for their support of this trip!

Photo Credits: 南飛嚼事

Our pre-show ritual. It's captured on our t-shirts as well! T-shirts for sale at all our events!

Warming up with our new Gongfu exercise!

A moment of calm, of expanding our senses, of supporting one another, of readiness. 

Our opening. Sharing our own stories of sacrifice, hardships, joy and mixed feelings of coming to TPG, of practising Playback Theatre.
來到了TPG, 我們放下了甚麼, 放開了甚麼? 有甚麼放不下的?我們做這戲劇犧牲了甚麼?









"我們到了。"

The conductor conducts. The process enters another stage. 

Our instruments, our voices, our souls. That emotional connections among the stories, among those present, both listening and sharing. 











I ask. You tell. I listen. We connect. Let's watch.





Playback Theatre promotes connections that breaks cultural boundaries. Laura was chosen to be the teller-actor in two stories. It is beautiful to see. 





瘋子!

Giving the time back to Hsieh Yu Ting, from 南飛嚼事, the local Playback group and the organizing host for this TPG.
Exchanging T-shirts with Yu-Chen Kao, a dear and old friend, and the President of the Taiwan Playback Theatre Association.

Saturday, July 05, 2014

July Open Rehearsal - Tapestry Playback Theatre


Dear friends, 

Open Rehearsal is back again on 26th July, 2014! 

Venue: Toa Payoh Central Community Club Dance Studio
Time: 7pm to 9pm

We welcome one and all to join our little community in exploring and practicing Playback Theatre in an open, safe and informal space.

Come and try out the different roles in Playback - the musician, the story-teller and the actor!

But do book your slot fast, because as much as we hope to accomodate everyone, our space is limited.

Go to http://www.amiando.com/ORJul to register now!

Please help support the practice of this community theatre with a small donation when you come.

Thanks and see you soon!

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Vote now for your favourite theme for the next Tapestry Playback Theatre show!



Choose your favourite one! 

1) Can You Hear Me?
2) Forgotten Dreams 
3) Maybe If

Email your favourite of the 3 themes above to tapestry.ticketing@gmail.com!

2 lucky winners each get:
~ a pair of tickets to our show in September! 
~ 2 Tapestry Playback Theatre T-shirts!

Vote now! 

Voting ends 1am on 5th July. Winners will be announced within 2 weeks.


Playback Theatre is a community theatre that improvises and transforms personal stories from the audience, using elements of movement, spoken word, music and cloth. Often, Playback Theatre shows perform stories triggered by a theme. 

Monday, May 26, 2014

Photos from Left Behind

Thank you everyone for coming to Left Behind!

We'd like to share some photos with you here, but do visit www.youtube.com/tapestryplayback for video snippets!

Hope that they bring back memories of the stories that we all shared in. See you at our next shows in September!





















Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Tickets for Left Behind on sale now!



Shows: 17th May (7:30pm) & 18th May (3pm)
Tickets at $20 available from www.amiando.com/LeftBehind.
Or just click tickets below! 

People left behind. Emotions left behind. Objects left behind. What's left?

Come share your stories as we playback to the theme of Left Behind.

Watch and listen as your stories come to life with movement, word, music and cloth!

Playback Theatre is an improvisational form of community theatre, that honours the individual voices, and builds community through the commonalities in our stories.


Get your tickets now! 

Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Full-house at our first Open Rehearsal of 2014!

We had a full-house at our first Open Rehearsal of the year! From teenagers to retirees, we gathered for a curiosity about Playback Theatre. 

Thank you all for being such good sports. Thank you for the stories. Thank you everyone making this Open Rehearsal a beautiful, meaningful and magical evening. 

And if you missed this one, our next is on the last Saturday of April! =))

We're thankful that everyone found their footwear afterward! 
Walking the space.
Lalande!

Lalande!
Improvising movement to improvised sound.

Improvising movement to improvised sound.

Improvising movement to improvised sound.

Improvising movement to improvised sound.
And now it is time for the stories...