A dynamic, engaging and theatrical way to get your group thinking, talking and acting out solutions to their very real and pressing challenges.
Here’s how it works:
- Select from the list below the play that best represents issues facing your community or organization.
- Schedule an interactive performance with the actors of the Playback Café.
- Continue the dialogue after the show!
During each Forum presentation, the Playback actors perform 3 to 5 short scenes about characters struggling with issues in their lives or in their communities. Then the audience is invited to participate by offering opinions, perspectives and solutions!
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Plays and topics
- A Will to Survive
Will, a homeless man struggling to get his life together and reunite with his family, fights one challenge after another in his quest to survive on the mean streets of Greenville. - A Will to Thrive
Another play about Will. He’s turned some corners but is still struggling to overcome the mistakes of his past. - Oh Snap: Perceptions of Poverty
Jennifer, a single mom on food stamps (SNAP) meets Ty, a successful businessman, in a grocery store line. Opinions are heated until we step back in time to learn more about these two people. - Nora’s House
Nora, a wife and mother, struggles to find her identity while married to an emotionally abusive husband. - Custom forum plays
We create an interactive forum play on a topic relevant to the people in your organization or community! - Choose peace – not conflict
A series of three scenes which present conflict through gender, age and racial discrimination. The characters meet in a university classroom, a real estate office, and outside a McDonalds where a young black man is confronted by a police officer.
- A Will to Survive