The project is an intersection between Art and Restorative Justice for domestic/gender-based violence victims. During each performance, a painter will be creating a painting on the stage, boosting the performance's impact, and all of them could be exhibited in Athens, to raise awareness on both RJ and violence. As a closing ceremony, the next day of each performance there will be a Restorative Circle (a form of dialogue and story-telling) that will wrap-up the participants' feelings and needs, and bring an organic closure to the experience.

Typically, RJ practices require verbal communication between conflicted parties, but there may be cases other forms of expressing feelings and emotions are needed. This is the case with vulnerable people for whom verbal expression may be difficult. In our project we intend to use Playback Theater as a form of communication for restoring the harm, overcoming trauma and reintegrating in society from the victims' perspective.

Victims of crime often experience their needs for information, vindication, restitution and empowerment are not met in the justice system - but victims who participated in Restorative Practices feel it offered them answers and a voice in a meaningful justice response to crime.

Playback is a form of audience-inspired, improvisational theater designed to promote connectivity and empathy through storytelling. The Playback process contains restorative and therapeutic aspects, and can also help to address the trauma that arises from the experience of violence. Over the past decades, the use of Playback within social movements (discrimination, gender-based violence, homophobia, environmental degradation) has begun to grow.