DP Theatre - Research Presentation (first assessment 2024): Get started!

This guide provides resources for the Research Presentation External Assessment task for IB Theatre (first assessment 2024).

SL 30% ~ HL 20%

You will work independently to research an unfamiliar theatre tradition from the IB's prescribed list.

You will:

• Choose and research a world theatre tradition that you have not previously studied, focusing on one practical convention.
• Physically explore the chosen convention and demonstrate this process in your presentation.
• Experiment with the application of your convention to Traditional Performance Material (TPM).
•  Reflect on how your performance skills and your understanding of theatre in the world have developed as a result of this project.

The presentation must be under 15 minutes long, and can be filmed in either one unedited take, or split into three recordings (one for each criterion) filmed at different times. Ensure that your tradition is chosen only from the list in the IB Theatre guide, and ensure that your one chosen convention is a performance one: i.e. it must center on the performer's use of body, voice or manipulation of tradition-specific objects.

This is an oral presentation, given to camera and, if you and your teacher wish, a live audience. Care must be taken to cite the sources used both at the point of use in the presentation, and in a list of references submitted separately.