IB Theatre - Production Proposal (first assessment 2024): Get started!

This guide provides resources for the Production Proposal Internal Assessment task for IB Theatre (first assessment 2024).

On this page, see:

Just the Basics: Production Proposal

And finally...

Mood Board Gallery

IB Resources - Assessment Criteria, Key Terminology, and Handouts

For help with selecting and identifying the key ideas in your play text, see:

Choosing and Exploring a Text

For details on the assessment process and assessment see:

Task Roadmap & Assessment Criteria

For help with structuring the Production Proposal see:

Task Structure

For guidance on theatre-maker intentions (TMI), and performance spaces, see:

Theatre-maker Intentions

For information on directing, see:

TEAM - You are the Director

For help with using production design to convey your intentions for your play, see:

Production Design

For information on the IB Academic Integrity policy, see:

Citing Your Sources

For help with your references, see:

NoodleTools

MLA Citation Examples

Gretchen Nordleaf

Room: Frodel B
Frodel Hall

Email:  gnordleaf@westsoundacademy.org

WSA IB Theatre Website: https://www.wsaibtheatre.org

Imagine directing and producing a play how you have always imagined it!

SL 30% ~ HL 20%

Whether an SL or HL student, YOU will choose a published play text that you have not previously studied and formulate a vision for the design and theoretical staging of the entire play text for an audience. Your ideas are then presented in the form of a written Production Proposal. You are NOT required to stage the play.

• Your objective with the Production Proposal is to communicate your vision for the feasible staging of a play text for a live audience.
• You will approach this task using TWO perspectives - that of the director and that of the designer.
• Your finished work will be a maximum of 12 pages of written text and images, with written text not exceeding 4,000 words.
• Your work will explain how performance and production elements could potentially work on stage to fulfill theatre-maker intentions.
• You will write your proposal in the first person and include visual production design ideas and images to help communicate your vision.
• The production proposal articulates your vision for the final staging of the play text.
• You are not required to consider a hypothetical rehearsal process in this task.
• The list of any sources used is excluded from the page count.*

*See Production Proposal, Student Information Booklet, IBDP Theatre, First Assessment 2024, by Kieran Burgess. The booklet is available for download on his website here.

"This task is asking you to propose how you would stage your chosen play. It is not asking you to actually stage it. So you really do not have to be limited to only the school stage. In this hypothetical world, you have the finances you need, the space you want, and the crew and cast to make your exact wishes happen. As long as it is physically possible, and feasible (whilst it is physically possible, with the resources and permissions, to stage your play on a revolving stage atop the summit of Mount Everest, it certainly is not feasible), you can do it."

Burgess, Kieran. "Production Proposal 2022: Set Your Imagination Free!" Kieran Burgess, 3 Oct. 2022, www.kpburgess.com/post/ set-your-imagination-free. Accessed 19 July 2024.;