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Public Performance
"Intimacy and Distance"

Friday 11th November 2011

QL2 Theatre
Gorman House Arts Centre
Batman st, Braddon
(note the change of venue!)

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Public Performances

Thanks so much for such an fantastic performance! Really loved it and hope to see more! Audience member
public performance, 2011

Great topic and well paced development of it over the night. Excellent performances - sensitive, humorous and harmonious. Thanks! Audience member
public performance, 2011

Fantastico! I soooo enjoyed your performance tonight and remembered fully why I love playback so much! Thankyou! Audience member
public performance, 2011

The one in the purple is very funny! Audience member
public performance, 2011

A fabulous performance by all actors, a great escape for me. I thoroughly enjoyed the great stories that were told. Thanks for the great experience. Audience member
public performance, 2010

What insightful people you are! I think each performance gave new "diamond" facets to the sotry someone told. Be thinking about tonight for a while to come, thanks. ps: fantastic portrayal of a bath! Audience member
public performance, 2010

Awakening, encouraging, meditative, and yet releasing. Audience member
public performance, 2010

Great fun, amazingly empathic, impressive spontaneous acting. We will be back! Audience member
public performance, 2010

This was the best show I've seen in a looong time!! Very impressed! Audience member
public performance, 2009

Excellent! Love it. makes me smile + belly laubh (-: Audience member
public performance, 2009

impressive imagination & creativity! Audience member
public performance, 2009

Better than TV! Audience member
public performance, 2009

Excellent! A really good warming belly laugh! Audience member
public performance, 2009

A gorgeous, stimulating experience. Extraordinary talent, empathy. Extremely touching. Thank you so much for the rare experience. Audience member
public performance, 2008

A beautiful soulful night with every beat just right. Worth driving from Batemans Bay just for tonight. Thankyou (-: Audience member
public performance, 2008

Woderful - will be sharing these 'events' with my friends and coming again. You're all such lovely creative beings. Audience member
public performance, 2008

Very enjoyable show - the actors captured each moment perfectly. The music was lovely. Audience member
public performance, 2008

I loved the different perspectives on issues and the mix of energy levels during the performance - very insightful and entertaining. Audience member
public performance, 2008

Wow! I loved every bit of your performance. Audience member
public performance, 2008

Wonderful performance. Thought provoking but entertaining. Able to get to the essence - very perceptive. Thank You! Audience member
public performance, 2008

Inspiring and deeply emotional Audience member.
public performance, 2003

That French bloke is a funny bastard! Audience member.
public performance, 2002

Community and Corporate Performances

Congratulations to PBT crew - awesome grasp of complex situations and beautiful sensitivity to deep deelings, both joy & pain. Well done!
Conference participant, 2011

Surprisingly accurate and effective impromptu. Darn good!
Conference participant, 2011

I didn't realise how moving a vehicle for change of prejudice + fixed ideas theatre could be. Fantastic experience. Thank you.
Conference participant, 2011

Fantastic! Improvisational theatre that moved me to laughter & tears
Conference participant, 2011

Brilliant, as always. I dips me lid to you!
Conference participant, 2011

Unique and thoroughly worth seeing the telepathy at work in the group. Thankyou!
Community organisation activity 2010

Well done! Amazing! Love to see more.
Community organisation activity 2010

Fantastic - so imaginative & inspiring!!
Community organisation activity 2010

I'm so glad we stayed to experience your performance. Fantastic that you could capture the feelings so succictly.
Conference participant, 2003

What a wonderful range of performers. In all the storys the essence was clearly captured!
Conference participant, 2003

This is what I most looked forward to on the program and I was uplifted beyond my expectations! Thank you!
Conference participant, 2003

Thank you. Very perceptive, and you made a huge contribution to our understanding and vision. Workshop participant, 2003

I think what you do is wonderful for the person who tells you the story as it sheds new light and offers new meanings for them about their experiences.
Conference participant, March 2002

How did you all know what to do? It looked like magic! Participant.
community organisation celebration, 2002

Your contribution was highly appropriate, lots of fun and for many of us a poignant reminder of why we are involved in this organisation. Participant,
community organisation celebration, 2002

What a lot of fun, but I can also see how deeply a story can reach people. Participant, community organisation celebration, 2002

Playback worked brilliantly! Staff at the hospital were able to see the impact of their style of care on patients, and their commit-ment to their work was powerfully acknowledged and celebrated. Audience member
Canberra Hospital performance, 2001