Queer Playback at international playback gathering

Over the rainbow: telling queer stories workshop

Arnet and Jane are running a fab workshop at the IPTN - an international playback gathering in Frankfurt, Germany.  The workshop is for anyone who identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) or  who might be questioning their sexuality. Using games and playback we will have the opportunity to enjoy sharing and listening to our often hidden stories about our sexuality and sexual orientation. What stories lie on the 'other side' of the rainbow? How safe do we feel when we tell them?  As LGBT playbackers what insights and experiences do we bring? How are we, as LGBT people, represented in playback theatre and given space within the arc of the playback performance? 

IPTN, Frankfurt 

Wednesday 23 to Saturday 26 November 2011 

Queer Playback at GFest

 
What’s so queer about being queer?

Playback workshop & mini performance

5-7.00pm, Friday 18 November 2011

The Cockpit, Studio 1, 

Gateforth St, Marylebone, 

London NW8 8EH  

We are delighted to be performing at GFest, London's LGBT cross-arts festival. This is a friendly and interactive introductory workshop in which you will have fun learning some drama skills and sharing your stories, combined with the opportunity to see a playback 
performance at first hand. No previous experience necessary.  All welcome.

                                                           Tickets: £7 / £5 (concs)

Box office T: 020 7258 2920 / advance booking online: www. thecockpit.org.uk/

 

Make an evening of it and come to GFest's women's cabaret night at 7.30pm.

GFest LGBT cross-arts festival

GFEST  7 to 20 November 2011

www.gaywisefestival.org.uk

GFest is London's premier LGBT cross-arts festival. It is a platform for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and queer artists, organisations and venues to promote LGBT and queer arts. Organised by arts charity Wise Thoughts, GFEST features established alongside fresh or young LGBT artists and queer talent across the arts, including visual arts, theatre, dance and performance, LGBT short films, debates, workshops and parties.

Queer Playback Theatre Workshop

 Sunday 2 October 2011

10.00am-4.00pm

Who is the workshop for?  

All lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people with some drama, performance or playback experience.

What's the workshop about?

The workshop is an introduction to playback theatre. It's an exciting, creative and fun opportunity to work with other LGBT people, sharing our stories as we learn more about the skills, rituals and perspectives which form the basis of playback theatre.

You'll also be ble to find out more about the possibilities for performing playback theatre and get involved in an emerging network of queer playback practitioners.  

Facilitators: Queer Playback Theatre Company founding members: Arnet Donkin, Mirror Mirror Playback, Plymouth; Lorna Henry, Breathing Fire, Black Women's Playback Company, Bristol; Jane Hoy, London Playback Company.

Venue: Drill Hall Studios, 16 Chenies St, London WC1E 7EX

(nearest tubes: Goodge St, Warren St, Tottenham Court Rd)

 Refreshments provided. Bring your lunch.

For further information, to check out if the workshop is right for you or to enrol, email us at queerplayback@gmail.com and we'll send you details.

Fee: £25 waged/ £15 unwaged. Payment by cash, cheque or bank transfer

  Arnet, Lorna and Jane

I attended the 1st Queer playback workshop in Bristol in July. It was incredible. I found the facilitators warm, inviting and fun. I thought it would be hard, or emotional in some ways, coming from a counselling and psychotherapy background. Yet, I just found it hilarious and really grounding from beginning to end. I didn't want it to end. I look back and think of some playback's I could've improved on, but mostly, I just loved it and the end result didn't matter so much as being fully present. REALLY WONDERFUL. Thank you!

Feedback on our workshops

'I tried new forms of expression'.....says Marnie Johnson from Hastings.  

Marnie took part in Queer Playback Company's drama workshop at LFest, Shrewsbury and said that  'The workshop surpassed all my expectations. I thought I'd feel self-conscious, but the facillitators created such a warm and friendly environment, that it felt safe to push the boundaries of my comfort zone. I've always been impressed by improvisation and loved having the opportunity to try it out. Would love to do another workshop and learn more'.  She  said she was also impressed by the performance in the evening as she watched 'skilled and experienced performers bringing stories to life'.

Superlatives for Queer Playback from 

author and comedian VG Lee. She writes:

"I was very impressed by the Queer Playback Company when I saw them perform

at this year’s L-Fest. They took events from audience members’ lives,

re-interpreting them through drama, music and humour. The results were

absorbing, sometimes really funny, often emotionally affecting. There was

a real sense of highly professional teamwork and the individual

performances were superlative. I can’t recommend the Company highly

enough!"