Interactive Theatre - Applied Theatre Center

Download the flyer for ATC’s production of “Walk Back from the Edge.”

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!

NOW PLAYING: Walk Back from the Edge
Walk Back from the Edge: a suicide prevention project
- The Applied Theatre Center is proud to offer an immersive, theatrical experience challenging teens in Greenville County Schools to confront the plague of suicidality. According to the. SC Department of Mental Health, suicide is the 3^rd leading cause of death for ages 10-14 in our state.
- Walk Back from the Edge, is a 15 minute play that addresses the problem of teen suicide. The play is followed by a 30 to 45 minute period of audience interaction during which solutions to the problem are explored. The play is direct and realistic and might be inappropriate for some students.
- The central character of Walk Back from the Edge is Jesse, a 15-year old girl who is returning to her school after having missed most of the previous year classes following her suicide attempt.
FORUM THEATRE: Plays and topics
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.
Download program information in PDF file format.