Longer stories are at the heart of the Playback Theatre experience. In the classic long form known as Scenes or Stories, individual experiences unfold in their full complexity, allowing us to discover meaning, relationship, and shared humanity. This Level 2 training develops the craft, skills, and understanding needed for this crucial and challenging form.

Participants learn to listen deeply to the teller’s story, tracing its emotional arc and key turning points. The training strengthens ensemble awareness and responsiveness, enabling the group to hold the story together while leaving room for spontaneity and discovery. Participants also explore how to weave between abstract or poetic sequences and realistic enactments, allowing metaphor and naturalism to enrich one another.

Through practice, reflection, and feedback, the workshop deepens understanding of the long form and strengthens participants’ capacity to serve tellers and audiences through physical, aesthetic, and resonant enactments.