Forth Annual Global Playback
Event in Taiwan We have three playback companies participated the festival of issue of Human Rights in Taiwan this year, in which respectively we used three different styles to proceed. Know Playback Theatre held the playback performance focused on the human right. YOURS Playback Theatre, which is based in Hsin-Chu, had a workshop and forum discussing about this topic. As for Playback999, accordingly gave the audience an experiencing activity of playback before the performance in Hua-Lien. Before the festival, Knowing Playback Theatre had held 2 workshops about how to process the social issue, the members are fundamentally composed by these team members. The purpose of which converged on facing the social issue of the story and the relationship between the individual and the environment we live in.   After the festival, three playback companies shared and discussed the experience and inspiration from these performances by recording. . The content of general
performances list as below: 1. Knowing Playback Theatre (Yu-Chen Kao wrote) In 7th December, in the morning of a Saturday , Knowing Playback Theatre performed a playback performance which topic is based upon the Human Rights in a semi-open Taipei Culture Center, Wen-Shan department. The audience were above 40, from child to the aged, part of them are the playbackers around Taiwan. In the opening we employed the music of “Power to the People”, the actors played the ball and talked about the social issues we cared in the world one by one. We used the form of Collage recap our stories in the end. From the story of the British child with heart disease, the introspection of the education system on Taiwan which was posed by a junior student who questioned the process of educational policy ignored the voiced of the student and the decision of the important public construction which should be involved with the people’s opinion but not, the theme of the performance encircled on the person, whether has the right to proclaim his own right or not. Hopefully by this performance, we can lead the audience to notice the issues, which is still happening in the Taiwan, in the world. From these true stories of the reality, we hope provoke the authentic feeling of the audience rather than seeing a show. Under the music of Imaging, the actors passed the balloons, with the perspective of participant may bring the concern of the society, with throwing their own efforts to make the world better.   2. YOURS Playback Theatre (Jester Lee wrote) In the morning of 6th Dec, 2008, YOURS playback theatre company perform the “Story of Freedom”, being seen by about 40 audience, composed mainly by community citizen, 3 volunteer of Judicial Reform Foundation and a mental disorder children. Through the discussion we inspired the probability of action between conservatives and future. In the afternoon of the same say, we also held a workshop of Human Right Education” and about 10 persons attended. In the performance, we started by a human right game through which to encourage the interaction. Accordingly the actors shared about our own concerned issue in the past as the beginning. Gradually the audience began to mirror their own struggling, such as the how to educate the children, the personal story. It is also worthy to mention that some audience began to question the definition of the freedom. After sharing some feeling and short stories, a middle age man shared the developmental relation between his father since he was a child. By the form of “Collage” we recaptured through the performance and tried to balance the different perspective as ending. In addition to that, we had a short forum right after the performance, in which the audience reflected each other’s story by sharing. By the diverse feedbacks from the audience, we discovered that the audience started to introspect the past experience from which might come across to oppress the others accidentally. To sum up, the playback literally creates the space allowing people to watch the story, and evokes them to have further thinking.   3. Playback 999 Theatre In the evening
of 10th, Dec, 2008, we started from experience activity,
the word cards which were written various human rights implications,
such as unfairness, freedom, discrimination, justice and so on, were
placed on the ground. Everyone selected the most impressive cards ,
and then shared their experience with people who got the same card.
Following the sharing, they did improvisation of sculpture according
to the word on the card, and let others to guess the meaning of the
word. When participants
found that someone choose the same word cards, they realized that "
I am not the only one who have this feeling". Even though people
have different stories, but they may have the same feeling. That is
the feeling that “there is somebody in the same boat”. A teacher participant compensated for an injustice done to
students, could not respect the colleagues with indedication attitude
, do not agree that the colleagues over protect their own rights and
neglect the learning right of students. A Junior high
School girl also complained that witnessed the boys in her class look
down on discrimination against girls, but at other times she felt the
sense of justice. It is worthy to be called a modern version of “a
Swordswoman”. 
 Reference Resources: Knowing Playback Theatre: http://knowtheater.pixnet.net/blog Yu-Chen Lifestory Theatre http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/lifestory-theatre/ YOURS Playback Theatre: http://breezygest.blogspot.com/ Jester Lee: http://jesterlee.blogspot.com/search/label/一人一故事劇場 Playback 999: http://www.wretch.cc/blog/playback999 http://gpe2008tw.playbackers.net/ 台灣一人一故事劇場人權演出紀實 今年在台灣有三個團隊參與人權議題的演出，我們分別用了三種形式，一是在台北的知了劇團，進行一場人權的演出，另一個新竹你說我演劇團，是演出後進行座談與人權議題的工作坊，第三是花蓮的花天久地劇團，演出前先上小型的一人一故事劇場體驗活動。知了劇團曾為此演出開辦兩堂社會議題工作坊，邀請有興趣的團隊伙伴一起參與，目的在練習面對關於故事中的社會層面，以及時事跟個人故事的關係，演出後我們透過書寫、記錄彼此分享這三場演出的歷程與想法。
三場演出分別如下： 一、知了劇團 高伃貞撰 http://knowtheater.pixnet.net/blog http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/lifestory-theatre/ 十二月七日星期六上午，知了劇團在半開放式的兒童劇場演出人權議題的一人一故事劇場，參與的伙伴約四十多人，有來自台灣各地的一人一故事劇場朋友共襄盛舉，現場觀眾的年齡也從幼童到中年人，開場用Power to the people的音樂開始，演員將最近關心的議題用一顆顆的氣球代表著，演出最後用拼貼將今天發生過的故事再次簡短地呈現出來。故事的紅線環繞著對自身權益有無決定的能力，從英國心臟病孩童的故事反省到台灣的教育體制，一位國中生表達了教育的決策沒有學生的聲音，到公共建設的決策，聽不進民眾的心聲。 希望大家能一同目睹發生在台灣、世界的議題，重點是看到真實人生對這些議題的感受，而非八卦事件，報導過就算了。在Imaging的音樂聲中，我們將氣球發放下去，希望大家帶著對社會的關注，發揮一些自我的力量，讓這個世界更好。 二、你說我演劇團 李志強撰 http://breezygest.blogspot.com/2008/12/blog-post.html Jester Lee:
http://jesterlee.blogspot.com/search/label/一人一故事劇場 十二月六日上午，你說我演劇團在新竹演出了自由的故事，有四十位社區居民參加，包括三位民間司法改革基金會的志工，和一位腦性痲痺的孩子。透過大家的參與與分享，一同探討了在傳統與未來之間我們能有的作為。下午在同一場地也舉辦了一場人權教育活動帶領的工作坊，約有十人參加。 演出以一個關於人權的遊戲開始，促進大家的交流，然後演員從自己的過去－現在－未來開場，分享了一些自己關切的議題。觀眾們開始回應在自己的生命歷程中，也遇到了相同的困境，諸如教導子女的方式，或是自己一生的經歷。也有一些觀眾開始對自由究竟是什麼產生疑惑。 在分享一些感受和短的故事之後，一位社區的中年男仕分享了他和父親之間，從很小的時候到現在彼此關係發展的歷程，演員用故事呈現了這段故事。結尾時演員透過拼貼回顧整場演出，並補足不同的觀點。演出結束之後，演員和觀眾進行了二十分鐘的座談。觀眾分享著自己的心情，並回應著彼此的故事。
三、花蓮花天久地劇團 葉燕宏撰 http://www.wretch.cc/blog/playback999 十二月十日晚上，花天久地一開始就把「不公平」、「自由」、「歧視」「正義」等各種人權的意涵的詞卡丟在地上，讓大夥去看、去選一個最有感覺（或曾有過的經驗）的詞卡，選擇同樣詞卡的兩個夥伴互相分享曾有過的經驗，接著更即興用「雕像」呈現出這個詞彙讓大家猜，並以這些各種人權的意涵的詞卡與生活上做聯想。 當發現有夥伴也選擇相同的詞卡時，竟有一種「原來不是只有我有這種感覺」的同是天涯淪落人之感。而在每個人陳述不同故事的背後，卻都有相同的心情，那是「有伴」的感覺。 一位在場的老師一開始就很為學生抱不平，看不慣同事不敬業的態度，覺得太過求自己的權益，那學生的學習權在哪？ 一位國中女生也大肆抱怨，目睹班上男生看不起女生的歧視，一時就正義感油然而生，真不愧是現代版「拔刀相助」的俠女呀！ 演出後，大家的迴響是聽到大家一起說出不平的聲音，心裡很爽，也覺得很有力量！ 握著夥伴的手，串聯能量，流竄彼此動脈的血是熱騰騰的…… 讓正義發光、讓心自由！ *請參考聯合演出網站：http://gpe2008tw.playbackers.net |