Transformation (Playback)
A Playback short form where the enacted story shifts toward a wished-for outcome — used when the teller names what they wish had happened or might still.
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- Two-part structure: first the story as it happened, then the story as the teller wishes it could be.
- Ethically load-bearing: the transformation is the teller's, not the actors' — conductors are trained not to impose an 'uplifting' ending.
- Derived in part from Moreno psychodrama's surplus-reality technique; Fox and Salas adapted it for public performance.
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