[5] Playback Theater involves audience or group members telling stories from their lives and viewing them as enacted by actors improvising.
[7] This form of applied drama focuses on using theatre to educate, engage, and stimulate healing in medical professionals, patients, and the general public.
This form of drama is often used to educate people on important health issues such as healthy eating, grief and loss, exercise, and sexual assault prevention.
Examples include using actors to role-play health ailments in order to train healthcare professionals, performing plays focused on primary prevention, and facilitating drama workshops for patients.
"[13] TIE seeks to educate young people in issues that are relevant to both them and their communities, for example: bullying, dating violence, environmental preservation, and peer conflict resolution.
"TIE companies have always been among the most socially conscious of theatre groups, consistently choosing to examine issues they believe to be of direct relevance to the lives of the children with whom they work.
"[14] "Theater for Dialogue" (TFD) is a more recent term describing a model that was created specifically for the University of Texas at Austin campus community which pulls methods and theory from a variety of applied theatre practices such as TO and TIE.
Boal's techniques aim to use theatre as means of promoting social and political change through allowing the audience to take an active role in the creation of the show.