A Marriage of True Minds A Memoir of My Parents, Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter & Elias Avery Lowe

Patricia Tracy Lowe

Tusitala Publishing

The Essential Moreno is an important collection of excerpted writings of psychodrama’s legendary founder J. L. Moreno, including basic and advanced concepts and techniques, and verbatim transcripts of psychodrama sessions, edited by Jonathan Fox. The book has been a classic in the psychodrama literature since 1987, with numerous foreign-language editions.

The Essential Moreno: Writings on Psychodrama, Group Method, and Spontaneity by J. L. Moreno, M.D.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Jonathan Fox

Mental Health

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

Salas, Jo

Psychology & Counseling

Zoomy Zoomy is a collection of dynamic, well-tested, and easy-to-follow theatre games, warm-ups, and exercises for leaders working with groups of all ages, including theatre teachers, directors, classroom teachers, and group facilitators. Author Hannah Fox has collected and, in many cases, invented these activities over years of facilitating groups and performing. She also shares her wisdom as an experienced group leader about how to use the exercises-when and why to select them, how to introduce them, and how to lead them. Hannah Fox is a former professor of dance and theatre at Manhattanville College and founder of Big Apple Playback Theatre based in New York City. Hannah teaches dance, theatre, and improv workshops internationally.

Zoomy Zoomy: improv games and exercises for groups

Literature & Fiction

Fox, Hannah

Dramas & Plays

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

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

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

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