Community Storytelling Project
About Motus Playback Improv Theater
Motus Theater invites you to a special adventure of improvisational theater where audience members share a short reflection or a story from their lives, and then watch a diverse group of professional improv actors enact these stories on the spot using movement, music, and dramatic spoken word. The stories may be funny or sad; memories from long ago or yesterday. The audience and performers co-create a theater event whose subject is the life experiences of the people attending the show.
Check out the Motus event page or below for our next Playback show, and join Motus for an abundant exchange interconnecting our shared humanity through music, story, poetry, and improv theater.
Check out the latest way Motus Playback Theater is facilitating community storytelling with the City of Boulder:
Motus Theater led three community conversation events from January to February 2025, highlighting the visions of diverse leaders for the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan (BVCP). Each event, developed and facilitated by Motus Playback Theater, included a two-hour visioning session. Participants shared personal reflections on four questions about the Boulder Valley. Community responses shared publicly at this event were enacted live by professional actors using movement, music, and spoken word. Integrated into performative reflections was a feedback form with the same corresponding questions. Read More.
Book a Playback Performance
Motus is booked for pure entertainment or to tackle community conversations on difficult issues of our time. We have performed to share stories from birthday and retirement parties or to entertain school children. We have performed at events to commemorate painful or even traumatic community events like the Boulder County Flood, so we can cry, laugh, and heal together to build resilience. Playback has even been used to support community dialogue on divisive issues such as different perspectives on gun control, the Palestinian and Israeli war, or restorative justice.
If you are interested in hosting a Playback Improv session for your event, please contact us: info@motustheater.org