Theatre Theorists
This practitioner developed Epic Theatre and encouraged audiences to think critically rather than become emotionally immersed.
Who is Bertolt Brecht?
This Japanese theatre form is known for elaborate costumes, stylized movement, and male actors playing female roles.
What is Kabuki?
The visual arrangement of actors and scenery on stage,
What is staging or blocking?
This task requires students to investigate a theatre tradition and create practical explorations.
What is the Research Presentation?
The intended message, idea, or meaning communicated by a performance.
What is theme?
This Russian practitioner developed a system focused on truthful acting and emotional realism.
Who is Konstantin Stanislavski?
This Indian performance tradition combines dance, music, and highly symbolic makeup.
What is Kathakali?
This design area focuses on how performers are illuminated.
What is lighting design?
This assessment focuses on the collaborative creation and performance of original theatre.
What is the Collaborative Project?
This theatrical element refers to the speed and rhythm of a performance.
What is pacing?
This practitioner explored the "Theatre of Cruelty" and sought to engage audiences through sensory experiences.
Who is Konstantin Stanislavski?
This Italian theatrical tradition features stock characters such as Arlecchino and Pantalone.
What is Commedia dell'Arte?
This design element helps establish the time period, location, and atmosphere of a production.
What is scenic design?
This task asks students to write and design a vision for staging a published play text.
What is the Production Proposal?
This term describes how vocal and physical choices communicate character.
What is characterization?
This director founded the Poor Theatre movement and emphasized the actor-audience relationship.
Who is Jerzy Grotowski?
This Japanese theatre form is characterized by masks, slow movement, and spiritual themes.
What is Noh Theatre?
The process of combining technical, design, and performance elements into a cohesive artistic vision.
What is directing?
HL students complete this additional assessment focusing on artistic growth and practical exploration.
What is the Solo Theatre Piece?
The use of objects, images, and concepts to communicate meaning.
What is symbolism?
This Brazilian theatre practitioner created Theatre of the Oppressed.
Who is Augusto Boal?
This theatrical style, popularized in France, relies on exaggerated characters, mistaken identities, rapid entrances and exits, and improbable situations to create comedy.
What is French Farce?
The intentional use of levels, proximity, and stage pictures to communicate relationships and meaning.
What is spatial dynamics (or stage composition)?
This IB Theatre concept explores how artists make choices to communicate meaning through performance, design, and directing.
In IB Theatre, students should support evaluative claims about a performance using this.
What is specific evidence (or textual evidence) from the production?