Final Exam prep and materials

IB Theatre Final Exam Review Materials

A.      Theatre Terminology, Theorists, Texts, and Concepts

1. Types of stages (Black Box vs. Proscenium stage vs. Thrust vs. Theater-in-the-Round)

2. Stage directions: Up, Down, Left, Right

3. Voice, Projection, Enunciation

4. Blocking and Movement

5. Actor’s Motivations and Using Backstory to create characters

6. Props, Set pieces, Costumes
7. Straight plays vs. Musical Theatre

8. Realistic Theatre vs. Abstract vs. Fantastical

9. Stanislavski vs. Brecht and associated terms and theories (review the “Five Truths” videos and chapters in TIP)

10. Improv

11. Technical theatre (Lighting, Sound, Set Design, Costumes and Makeup) – theory and practice

12. Directing and Casting

13. Julie Taymor

14. World Theatre Traditions: Cantonese Opera, Rakugo, Commedia dell’Arte

15. Mask work in Theatre

16. Devised Theatre

17. The Caucasian Chalk Circle

18. Les Miserables

19. Hamlet
20. Theatre as “acting truthfully under given circumstances” vs “an artificial medium to prompt audiences to think or act in response”

For this section, you will need to answer some short questions about the above terms. You will also need to write a longer answer that specifically asks you to think about directing and staging a specific scene from a specific production. We will use Hamlet as our text for this as it is the last piece we are studying for this term.

B.       Thinking Like a Director for Next Year’s Project

For this section, you will need to write a 500-word proposal for what play you will choose for your Director’s Notebook project for next year. You will need to read through the IB guidelines for this assignment and choose an appropriate play and explain why you chose it and a little about what you might want to do with it. This will be your summer reading text as well, and you are required to purchase, read it, and take notes on it over the summer. The proposal will need to be done in advance of the final period and posted on your blog by the end of that day.