Event Details
Join True Story Theater, Arlington’s interactive theatre troupe, for a performance of “Families & Holidays” on Sunday, November 15 from 3-4:30pm at the Arlington Calvary Church’s Fellowship Hall.
This show’s exploration: How do families address differences when coming together for holidays? What relationships are often challenged and what do we do about them? What relationships are most meaningful and why?
It’s fine to just come to watch and listen. If you wish, you can volunteer to share your own experience.
Come share in a community of learning, empathy, and connection around our collective experiences with loved ones.
When: Sunday, November 15 from 3-4:30pm
Where: Calvary Church: Fellowship Hall, 300 Mass. Ave, Arlington, MA. Free street parking. Accessible entry can be found to the right of the stairs on Linwood St.
Cost: $15-25 online or at the door. No one turned away for lack of funds. All are welcome.
Get tickets: If possible, get your tickets ahead of time online here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/families-and-holidays-reaching-across-our-differences
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What happens in a True Story Theater performance? Our events bring together the delight of improvisation with the courageous vulnerability of people sharing their personal truth.
The show’s emcee (called “the conductor”) facilitates brief, spontaneous conversations with volunteers from the audience who share their own feelings and experiences related to the show’s theme. After each conversation, the actors and musician immediately embody the key feelings and actions they heard, using movement, music, dialogue, and superb listening. All of it is improvised on the spot. During the course of a 75-minute show, True Story enacts about 6-8 stories.
From this simple interaction, audience members feel validated, laugh, cry, get insights about their lives, and feel an expanded sense of community. You can share a moment from your life and see it performed, or just come to watch. For more, see https://truestorytheater.com/about-us/how-a-show-works/
This form of improvisation, called Playback Theatre, was developed 50 years ago and is practiced by hundreds of companies in over 70 countries.