Elena Waller of Oakland, Calif. Participates in Improvisational Theatre Performance at McDaniel College

2013 Oct 15

Elena Waller of Oakland, Calif., a senior at McDaniel College, participates in Playback, an interactive theatre performance in which audience members share personal stories that are then acted out by the performers. Free and open to the public, McDaniel's Playback takes place Friday, November 15, and Saturday, November 16, at 7:30 p.m. in WMC Alumni Hall at McDaniel College, 2 College Hill, Westminster, Md.

Playback theatre is a form of improvisational theatre that can be comedic, serious, dramatic, and cathartic. An audience member is called upon to tell a personal story, chooses actors to play the roles, and then watches as the story is immediately recreated.

Playback has been performed at McDaniel since 2004, and performers are students enrolled in a playback theatre course at the college. Former students in the playback theatre course have gone on to careers in acting, drama therapy, counseling, and education.

For more information, call 410-857-2448. Visit www.mcdaniel.edu for more information about the college and the theatre arts department.

McDaniel College, recognized nationally among 40 "Colleges That Change Lives" and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 70 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 25 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research,teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel's degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel also boasts a spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, an Amtrak station and BWI international airport.