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Engaging Audience for Feedback
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.

Kieran Burgess
Oct 6, 20254 min read


Theatre, Culture & Ritual
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.

Kieran Burgess
Sep 22, 20255 min read


Commanding the Command Terms: a DP Theatre Student Info Booklet
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.

Kieran Burgess
Sep 1, 20252 min read


Solo Theatre Piece 2022: Fly High, Solo.
The new IB DP Theatre STP (Solo Theatre Piece) Student Info Booklet is here! With a senior examiner's perspective, we unpack exactly what it takes to hit top marks. We'll explore how to structure the written report, as well as how to make the most of that all-important audience feedback. Packed with the right questions, you'll be prompted to include your original ideas with clarity and relevance to the criteria. Download this info booklet for free!

Kieran Burgess
Aug 30, 20222 min read


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

Kieran Burgess
Feb 28, 20221 min read


Accessing Artaud: Four Layers of Cruelty
An introduction to Antonin Artaud and what he meant by 'Theatre of Cruelty' - with four layers of cruelty proposed.

Kieran Burgess
Sep 9, 202110 min read


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

Kieran Burgess
Oct 5, 20192 min read
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