IB 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).

On this page, see:

IB Resources - Handouts and assessment rubric

World Theatre Traditions Gallery

At-a-Glance: Research Presentation

For help with choosing and researching a world theatre tradition, see:

World Theatre Traditions Sources

For help with focusing on one practical convention, see:

Traditional Conventions

For details on the assessment task process see:

Task & Structure

For guidance on traditional performance material (TPM), see:

Traditional Performance Material

For details on the role of reflection in this task, see:

Theatre Journal

For help with your research and writing, see:

NoodleTools

For help with your references, see:

Citing Your Sources

MLA Citation Examples

Gretchen Nordleaf

Room: Frodel B
Frodel Hall

Email:  gnordleaf@westsoundacademy.org

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

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.

See Citing Your Sources