We believe that the playback method helps to bridge divides within mixed audiences that come from different backgrounds, cultures, and viewpoints. Seeing stories come to life on the stage connects people across socio-cultural barriers enabling people to discover their common views, anxieties and hopes. Differences are experienced as intriguing and exciting rather than strange or threatening. The experience also provides members of the audience with a new prism threw which they can view their own regular habits and customs in different light. Sitting around a Kartoshkes "bonfire", the audience builds a sense of closeness and trust in the course of the performance that breaks through any preconceived ideas, mutual suspicions and prejudices and creates camaraderie.

The Kartoshkes ensemble believes that its style and techniques are particularly well suited for mixed and diverse audiences, whether Arabs and Jews, secular and religious, audiences from mixed socio-economic backgrounds, different generations, etc.