If you are the only student in your theatre class, you may invite one to five other students to join you in order to complete this task. Your teacher must approve who else becomes involved, and you may need to be flexible with time outside of lessons to be able to devise with them. If you are not the only student, you must work only with your DP Theatre classmates.
Consider your skills and strengths, then consider those of your classmates.
It is important that you consider your ensemble carefully, as the creation process can be intense, putting strain on friendships if there are strong disagreements. On the other hand, you can't afford to waste time with people who you will clash with in an obstructive way, or who will dominate or willingly be dominated.
You can ask for help from outside your group to operate any technical production elements, but your ensemble must specify how these are designed and operated. See Technical Support below.
Students should be responsible for choosing and using any production elements (scenic and technical), approaching this work with clear attention to health and safety requirements. During the performance, teachers or students who are not part of the ensemble may operate any technical production elements on behalf of the ensemble, the use of which must have been specified by members of the ensemble.
Ensemble
In this assessment task students work with other members of the theatre class to form an ensemble of between two and six theatre-makers. In instances where there is only one theatre student in the class, that sole student may work with peers that are not in the theatre class (such as theatre students from the year below, or other students who are not taking the DP theatre course) as long as the ensemble size does not exceed six. In instances where there are two (or more) students in the class these students must work together and no other individuals from outside the theatre class are permitted to be involved.
Collaborative creation of original theatre
The collaborative creation of original theatre involves an ensemble who work together practically to examine and develop ideas from a starting point in order to generate theatrical material that is then developed and structured into a piece of theatre (lasting 7–10 minutes). The piece of theatre is prepared for production, rehearsed and performed to an audience. The piece of theatre that has been created is not necessarily scripted in traditional forms. Unlike play text–based theatre written by a playwright(s), collaboratively created theatre is often developed by the performance and production team that also stage and present it. The collaborative creation of original theatre is also often referred to as devising.
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