This lecture will explore the importance of Playback Theatre (PT) through three different perspectives- the audience, the teller and the PT ensemble .The lecture will focus on some of these roots of playback theatre and the new research that is emerging from this field. Sociometry and its influence on PT has been neglected. We will in this lecture explore and uncover its importance in the  roots of playback theatre and its relevance for furthering the development of pt practice and research.  Sociometry focuses on the audience but then there is the teller and the individual story that is told .By exploring the perspective from the teller we will investigate how meaning is made through process of telling into enactment which takes on multimodal forms and the witnessing of that by the audience.

Audun has a Masters in Education (specialising in Drama) from Trondheim University in Norway focusing on inclusion and aesthetics. He graduated from of the Centre for Playback Theatre in 2009. Audun works as a special needs teacher at a Primary School where he applies different approaches to learning.

Audun started with PT in 2001 and is currently the artistic director of Theatre Momentum in Trondheim. The company that focuses on PT research and education. He has also been a part of a research project in Trondheim (Space Me project) that explored different entrances to learning between the arts and sciences. Playback Theatre was one of the methodologies that was implemented during this project with the aim of students interrogating their personal relationship to learning.