This "Design Shapes & Spaces" unit is designed to explore scenography as a crucial element of theatre, empowering students to understand its role in shaping storytelling. It directly aligns with the DP Theatre course, particularly the PP and STP. The unit introduces the concept of scenography as a collaborator, and practically explores shape, space, light, and objects. Students engage in hands-on activities, developing knowledge, skills, and conceptual understanding of theatr

The criteria in both the Collaborative Project & Solo Theatre Piece assessment tasks require audience feedback to support the student’s evaluation of the piece. This free teacher resource pack includes activities for teachers to use with a whole class, as well as a comprehensive guidebook with space for student responses. The guidebook can form the centre of this work for students, groups or teacher-led activities, and the presentation slides can be added at key moments.

This free resource is one of a series of units, guidebooks and lesson plans for teachers of Theatre. This introductory unit aims to develop students’ cross-cultural theatre-making abilities. By inquiring into different cultures and applying the artefacts from one culture into a piece of theatre from another, students are able to bring new focuses and perspectives to work they create through group inquiry, exploration and application to text or a starting point for devising.

This free resource is one of a series of units, guidebooks and lesson plans for teachers of Theatre. This mini-unit introduces students to some key elements and terms in immersive theatre. Students will encounter organic opportunities to explore design (particularly set design), devising and research skills, and play texts or extracts could easily be slotted in too.

This free student information booklet covers all of the command terms in the DP Theatre assessment criteria, ensuring understanding of the terminology used to differentiate between markbands across all assessment tasks. For each term, you'll find in the booklet: The official IB definition; An example to illustrate what a response or performance at that level might look like; and Self-Evaluation questions to help you think critically about your own work.

This free resource is one of a series of units, guidebooks and lesson plans for teachers of Theatre. Ideal as an early group formation task, The Me Project asks students to reflect on who they are as artists; considering what or who has influenced their style, work and preferences, and to present this reflection as a series of images that represent them. The group analyses the strengths and skillsets present amongst them, and form potential project ideas for later collaborati

The Student Info Booklet for the IB DP Theatre Collaborative Project is here! Read on to learn more about how to ace this assessment task: both the performance and the report to be submitted to IB for up to 40% of the final subject grade. With detailed guidance on what should be included to hit top marks, and the right questions asked to make sure your original ideas come to the fore, this booklet will walk you through the whole process of creating your report.

Free resources for the new IB DP Theatre course, starting with this one page overview of all tasks and criteria.

Researching collaborative companies for IB DP Theatre is a tough ask. I set out to fix it with this education pack made for IB Theatre peeps

We used movement as a starting point for identifying shapes, lines, intersections, and points of concentration in our space.