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

This free resource is one of a series of units, guidebooks and lesson plans for teachers of Theatre. This mini-unit introduces students to an awareness of which production elements can be expressed visually, which formats work best, and some advice for producing clear images. This unit will show that even the 'worst' artists can still communicate clearly with quality visuals, ensuring success in DP Theatre Production Proposal.

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.

The Production Proposal is the IA in the current IB DP Theatre course. The student info booklet is here already! It unpacks how to structure the proposal, what to include to hit top marks, and asks the right questions so your original ideas come through strongly. Totally free, this pack will talk you through the whole process of exploring a play and completing this assessment task.

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

Email arrives. Coronavirus chaos. For those of you also in school closure, here are my online lessons for a mock PP/DN in IB DP Theatre.

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