Stories speak to our bones and heart, they stimulate our minds. They return us to the curiosity and wonder of childhood. They reawaken our imagination.

Stories remind us, caution us, excite and inspire us.
They nourish our histories and our dreams.

Through story we see ourselves and each other. We remember our common humanity. We awaken our curiosity, our courage, to turn again to life.

Creating and Sharing Stories of Life Now
Life stories, as I write and tell them, express your experience of your life, your present, past and future with friends, colleagues and in groups and organisations.  You will recognise the poetry of your language, your history, your hopes and dreams in my stories of you. You will be touched and affirmed in your life journey.

Stories in the Playback Theatre form
Mirroring stories through improvised movement and sound is another form I use, using the Playback Theatre form. Playback Theatre mirrors your day-to-day experiences. A group form, the audience is essential as stories beget stories, beget stories, like sharing stories around a camp fire.
It's great fun, always surprising, funny and moving.

I founded the Sunshine Coast Playback Theatre Company in 2003, and performed with the Brisbane Playback Theatre Company for fourteen years, as actor, musician and conductor.

Clients have included a range of community groups and State Departments such as Treasury, Housing, Transport and Statistics, sharing stories on matters of common concern.

www.playbacknet.org

" There is a vitality,
a life-force an energy, a quickening which is translated through you into action, and because there is only one you in all time, this expression is unique and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and the world will not have it."
- Martha Graham