Important Dates !

Rowan Studio, calendar April - December 2000.

* 14 to 16 April British Psychodrama Association

Annual Conference titled: Welcoming and

Celebrating Diversity at University College of St

Martin, Lancaster, contact: James Scanlan - 01436

831838

* 5/6 May Re-staging: personal growth through

archetypes (London) £60)

* 15-27 May Healing Tree International Training

workshop (Stratford-upon-Avon) for professional

people, request detailed flyer £600 (£400) (request

accommodation list).

* 27 May Shakespeare Masks and Stories

(Stratford-upon-Avon) workshop, seminar and

RSC performance of Henry IV, request flyer (£65)

* 29 May to 2 June Introduction to Dramatherapy for Social Workers (Switzerland).

* 23/24 June Sandtray and Sandplay with Children at Risk (London) £60

* 21/22 July Masks, Rituals, Stories (Manchester) with Gordon Wiseman (£75)

* 4/5 August Stories, Stones, Spiders: American

Indian Myths (London) £60.

* 17-20 August Dream Catcher: Art Therapy and Dramatherapy (Norway) with Ase Minde.

*4-8 September Brigand or Saint? Celtic Stories

and Rituals (Somerset) workshops with visit to

Glastonbury, with Elizabeth Rees, request special flyer £250 fully residential.

* 22/23 September Weaver of Tales: healing for

troubled children (London) Mooli Lahad in the stories that need to be told. (Book early) £75.

* 29/30 September Harvest your Dreams (London) Dreamwork through symbols £60.

* 13/14 October Dramatherapy and Transformation (Manchester) with Gordon Wiseman £75.

* 16/17 October Masks and Madness (Tel Aviv) exploring the Orestia.

* 18/19 October Dreams and Journeys (Jerusalem) new directions in your life.

* 27/28 October Dream Catcher (Rosh Pinna) working with dreams of life.

Times: weekend courses (London) Friday 6-9.30, Saturday 9.30-6pm (12 hours), Manchester Friday 6-9, Saturday 9-9 (15 hours).

Please let me know if there are any more courses I should circulate. Elinor

Playback at Dundee

Rep Theatre

In February of this year, I was invited to a training

event at Dundee’s Rep Theatre by Gen (Smyth)

which I was mildly dubious about. The reason for

this feeling was due to the fact that I had attended

the week long training conference on Playback in

York last summer and (if you’ve seen the ‘God’s

wife’ article in the Prompt) I was not overly

impressed.

However, the training day was brilliantly organised

(good job Gen and Co.) and it was actually a very

good experience. Led by David Powley from the

York Playback Company, we were taken through

some of the basic Playback forms and it was great

to be practising them again. In the evening, the

York Playback Company did a thematic perform-

ance based on Mental Health - Users and Providers,

to which a public audience had been invited all of

whom shared some knowledge or experience of the

mental health service. This performance was

carried out with a great deal of sensitivity and

respect. The overall feeling, therefore, was one of

support and empathy as the audience all had a

common denominator.

Our thanks would have to go to the York Playback

Company for their skills and expertise and also to

Genevieve and the Community Arts Department

at the Rep for a really insightful day.

Thanks! Elinor.