The Process & Roles
This is the step in the theatre-making process that includes research, asking questions, and generating initial ideas for a piece of theatre.
What is Inquiry?
This style of theater breaks the "fourth wall" and often includes song, dance, and larger-than-life characters.
What is Musical Theatre?
a performance element that specifically uses facial expressions, gestures, and stance to communicate to an audience.
What is Body Language or Movement?
This design element uses flats, backdrops, and props to create the physical environment on stage.
What is Scenic or Set Design?
This is the underlying purpose or message that a theatre-maker wants to communicate to the audience.
What is Intentions?
The theatre making role responsible for generating the ideas and writing a script/story for a piece of theatre.
What is the Creator?
This style of performance relies on a single actor using only body movements, gestures, and facial expressions to tell a story without speaking.
What is Mime?
a performance element that you warm-up using tongue twisters, breathing exercises, etc.
What is Voice?
The use of specific noises to create an atmosphere or signify an action, such as a phone ringing or a door slamming.
What are Sound Effects or Sound Design?
This type of stage configuration has the audience seated on two opposite sides of the playing space, creating a runway-like effect.
What is Traverse?
This is the final step in the theatre-making process AFTER Presenting/Performing.
What is Evaluating?
A modern form of drama that presents real events and testimonies to expose and analyze social or political issues.
What is Documentary Theatre?
This is what T.E.A.M. stands for in terms of moments within a piece of theatre.
What is Tension, Emotion, Atmosphere, and Meaning?
The manipulation of a light source's brightness, which can be used to direct the audience's focus or create a specific mood.
What is Intensity?
These are the two IB Theatre assessments we will work on this school year.
What is the Production Proposal and Solo Theatre Piece?
The role responsible for the overall vision of a production. This person leads the actors and designers in meeting the intentions and audience impact of a piece of theatre.
What is the Director?
This form of theater, popularized by Antonin Artaud, uses intense sensory experiences and shocks the audience with visceral imagery and sound to confront their deepest anxieties.
What is Theatre of Cruelty?
This element of T.E.A.M. is the dominant emotional feeling or mood created by the play's dramatic action and all of its production elements. It is the overall feeling a performance evokes in an audience.
What is Atmosphere?
The use of different fabrics and surfaces to reflect light, create visual interest, and suggest a character's social status or personality.
What is Texture?
Based on IB Theatre rubric command terms, you don't want to LIST or OUTLINE, but rather one of these Level 3 and 4 level terms.
What is DESCRIBE or EXPLAIN?
This is the number of steps in the theatre-making process and the same number of main roles in the theatre-making process.
What is four (4)?
A style developed by Bertolt Brecht that uses techniques like narration and placards to alienate the audience, encouraging them to think critically rather than just emotionally.
What is Epic Theatre?
three performance elements to use and practice as a performer in theatre.
What is Movement Skills, Vocal Work, Breathing Exercises, Relaxation Exercises, Characterization Exercises, Focus and Concentration Exercises, Energizing Exercises, Use of Emotions, Use of space, Working with others, and Eye Contact?
a list of five different production elements.
This type of staging involves the audience moving freely through the performance space, following the actors as they move from one location to another.
What is Promenade?