Fluid Sculpture
A Playback Theatre short form for feelings, not narratives, actors enter one at a time with a repeating sound and movement that layers into a group sculpture of the teller's emotional state.
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- The conductor usually prompts: 'What's a feeling you're carrying today?', then cues the fluid sculpture.
- Each actor enters in turn with one repeated gesture-and-sound; the next actor adds, does not replace. Ends when the conductor calls it.
- Used early in a show to warm the audience into the form, no story pressure, just feeling.
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