What is IB Theater (or Theatre)?

The IB Diploma Programme theater course is a multifaceted theater-making course of study. It gives students the opportunity to make theater as creators, designers, tech specialists, directors and performers. It emphasizes the importance of working both individually and collaboratively as part of an ensemble. The four major assessments are:

1. Solo Performance of any original or published piece; performers explore an aspect of a theater theorist/theory

2. Director's Notebook detailing the director's vision and execution for any published play

3. Research Presentation of a chosen world theater tradition

4. Collaborative Project where groups of students research a professional devising company and create their own original work 

Year 1 is a skill building year where we practice making and critiquing theater and complete preliminary assessments, whereas in Year 2 we refine our work and complete final drafts of the assessments to submit to IB.

How to succeed in IB Theater:

1. Listen, observe, and participate
2. Pay attention to detail
3. Take risks
4. Take and give constructive feedback
5. Work on your own improvement as a theater practitioner but also work as a team player in your groups
6. Take initiative; don't wait for moments of growth and insight and reflection -- make those moments happen
7. Keep a record of everything in your blogs so you can use that work in your formal reports for the IB assessments
8. Energy and focus, on and off the stage
9. Performance does not just live in words/lines -- it lives in the body, in action and reaction 
10. Remember to have fun