Improvising Real Life: Personal Story in Playback Theatre, written by one of its creators, describes the origins, practice and philosophy of Playback Theatre. Improvising Real Life is illustrated with dozens of real-life stories told in performances and workshops. Includes 15 photos and a glossary of playback terms.

Improvising Real Life: Personal Story in Playback Theatre

Arts & Photography

Salas, Jo

Performing Arts

Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co.

Improvising Real Life: Personal Story in Playback Theatre, written by one of its creators, describes the origins, practice and philosophy of Playback Theatre. Improvising Real Life is illustrated with dozens of real-life stories told in performances and workshops. Includes 15 photos and a glossary of playback terms.

Humor & Entertainment

Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co.

Improvising Real Life: Personal Story in Playback Theatre, written by one of its creators, describes the origins, practice and philosophy of Playback Theatre. Improvising Real Life is illustrated with dozens of real-life stories told in performances and workshops. Includes 15 photos and a glossary of playback terms.

Literature & Fiction

Tusitala

Author Jo Salas, a music therapist and cofounder of Playback Theatre, created a drama and music program at a residential treatment center in upstate New York for children 5 to 13 years old who had been diagnosed as severely emotionally disturbed. Do My Story, Sing My Song tells the stories of the children she worked with, many of whom were the survivors of extreme neglect and violence. Despite their traumas and their resulting depression, volatility, and even psychosis, the children at St. Mary’s were full of creativity. They longed to express themselves, to play, to love, and, remarkably, to contribute to the wellbeing of their peers. In one-on-one music therapy sessions, group singing, Playback Theatre performances with staff members enacting children’s stories, and therapy groups where the children acted stories for each other, the author encountered the resilience and artistry of these young people. Although reflecting on the background and theory of creative arts therapies, Do My Story, Sing My Song More is in the realm of narrative rather than formal case studies, offering stories where children’s voices are clearly and unforgettably heard. Jo Salas, MA, holds a master’s degree in music therapy from New York University. She is the cofounder of Playback Theatre, an original form of interactive story-based theatre now practiced in 65 countries. Her book Improvising Real Life: Personal Story in Playback Theatre is now in nine translations. Her TEDx talk “Everyone Has a Story” is available online.

Do My Story, Sing My Song: Music therapy and Playback Theatre with troubled children

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Tusitala Publishing

Improvising Real Life: Personal Story in Playback Theatre by Playback Theatre cofounder Jo Salas is the basic text used by new and seasoned Playback practitioners, trainers, and in university courses. The book has been translated into German, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Portuguese, Russian, Hebrew, and Korean (forthcoming). The 20th Anniversary edition includes a foreword by Roberto Gutiérrez Varea of Theatre Without Borders and co-founder of the Performing Arts and Social Justice Program at the University of San Francisco. Entertaining and thoughtful, Improvising Real Life is illustrated with photos and real-life stories told in performances and workshops.

Improvising Real Life (20th Anniversary Edition): Personal Story in Playback Theatre

PERSONAL STORIES IN PUBLIC SPACES gathers together some of the essays, articles, talks, and contributions to other anthologies that founders Fox and Salas have written since the earliest days of Playback Theatre, an original theatre form where audience members' stories are enacted on the spot. As well as previously published material, PSPS includes several essays written for this volume.

Personal Stories in Public Spaces: Essays on Playback Theatre by Its Founders

Fox, Jonathan

Dramas & Plays

A bright young man with cerebral palsy has his destiny intertwined with Princess Diana’s. Visiting a school for disabled boys, the future Princess Diana singles out wheelchair-bound Alex to dance with―a five-minute encounter that colors the rest of his life, though quickly forgotten by her. Alex, a survivor of severe school bullying, thinks constantly of the tall girl with blue eyes―until one day he sees her on television, the new fiancée of Prince Charles. Alex’s story interweaves with Diana’s final day before her fatal accident in the late summer of 1997. In the unsatisfying company of her billionaire boyfriend she careens from one luxurious, alien Paris location to another, tormented by paparazzi. All day she tries to reach a friend in London, hoping to hear news that will bring a new direction to her life.

Dancing with Diana: A Novel (Codhill Press)

Contemporary

Codhill Press

In 1928, Thomas Mann won the Pulitzer Prize for Buddenbrooks. While he balked at working with a female translator, his standing in the Western canon can be in part credited to the translating work of Helen Lowe-Porter. Salas tells us the true story of Lowe-Porter. Based closely on historical source material, the novel follows a young Helen as she struggles against gender roles in the early-mid 20th century to realize the life she desires as a writer and translator. Married to the charming classicist Elias Lowe, whom she met and fell in love with in Munich, the story weaves one woman's journey as her husband Elias's career soars, and her translation work earns Mann the Nobel Prize. The novel celebrates the life of Helen Lowe-Porter as she learns to risk stepping out from the long shadow of the dominating men of her life to become a person of letters in her own right.

Mrs. Lowe-Porter

Genre Fiction

Jackleg Press

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Salas, Jo. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Salas, Jo

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Salas, Jo. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Improvising Real Life: Personal Story in Playback Theatre

Improvising Real Life: Personal Story in Playback Theatre

Improvising Real Life: Personal Story in Playback Theatre

Do My Story, Sing My Song: Music therapy and Playback Theatre with troubled children

Improvising Real Life (20th Anniversary Edition): Personal Story in Playback Theatre

Personal Stories in Public Spaces: Essays on Playback Theatre by Its Founders

Dancing with Diana: A Novel (Codhill Press)

Mrs. Lowe-Porter