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IB Theatre

Making theatre as a creator, designer, director and performer: staging play texts, exploring world traditions and devising original work.

  • Group 6, the arts
  • SL and HL
  • First assessment 2024

What Augment has for Theatre

For Theatre, Augment has the syllabus and how the subject is assessed. There are no questions, notes or flashcards for it yet.

Both are below, and they come straight from the subject guide, so they are worth reading before you choose your subjects.

Counted on 20 October 2026

The Theatre syllabus

5 topics and 26 subtopics, first assessment 2024. HL is everything here; 6 parts marked HL only are left out at SL.

  1. 1The theatre-making process

    1. 1.1Inquiring
    2. 1.2Developing
    3. 1.3Presenting
    4. 1.4Evaluating
  2. 2Staging play texts

    1. 2.1Moments of tension, emotion, atmosphere and meaning
    2. 2.2The playwright’s ideas and theatre-maker intentions
    3. 2.3Design ideas for staging a whole play text
    4. 2.4Staging specific moments of a play text
    5. 2.5Presenting a production proposal
    6. 2.6Evaluating creative ideas against intentions
  3. 3Exploring world theatre traditions

    1. 3.1Unfamiliar world theatre traditions and their contexts
    2. 3.2Performance conventions and performance material
    3. 3.3Practical exploration through the body and voice
    4. 3.4Presenting research to camera
    5. 3.5Reflecting on your development as a performer
  4. 4Collaboratively creating original theatre

    1. 4.1Collaborative creation and contemporary theatre companies
    2. 4.2Starting points and shared intentions
    3. 4.3Contributing as creator, designer or director
    4. 4.4Performance skills of the body and voice
    5. 4.5Performing to a live audience and gathering feedback
    6. 4.6Evaluating the process in a project report
  5. 5Performing theatre theoryHL only

    1. 5.1Theatre theorists and their intentionsHL only
    2. 5.2Aspects of theory and theatre-maker intentionsHL only
    3. 5.3Applying theory through performance and production elementsHL only
    4. 5.4Presenting a solo piece to a live audienceHL only
    5. 5.5Evaluating theory in performanceHL only

How Theatre is assessed

From the subject guide, with a table for each level.

Standard Level

2 exams, internal assessment 30% of the grade.

ComponentTimeMarksWeight
Production proposalInternal

Coursework · 20 marks

A proposal for designing and staging a play text you haven’t studied: up to 12 pages of text and images, with no more than 4,000 words.

Coursework2030%
Research presentation

– · 24 marks

A video-recorded presentation of up to 15 minutes on your academic and practical exploration of an unfamiliar world theatre tradition.

–2430%
Collaborative project

– · 24 marks

An original piece of 7–10 minutes made and performed with others, filmed, plus a project report of up to 10 pages and 4,000 words.

–2440%

Higher Level

3 exams, internal assessment 20% of the grade.

ComponentTimeMarksWeight
Production proposalInternal

Coursework · 20 marks

A proposal for designing and staging a play text you haven’t studied: up to 12 pages of text and images, with no more than 4,000 words.

Coursework2020%
Research presentation

– · 24 marks

A video-recorded presentation of up to 15 minutes on your academic and practical exploration of an unfamiliar world theatre tradition.

–2420%
Collaborative project

– · 24 marks

An original piece of 7–10 minutes made and performed with others, filmed, plus a project report of up to 10 pages and 4,000 words.

–2425%
Solo theatre piece

– · 24 marks

A solo piece of 4–7 minutes applying an aspect of a theatre theorist’s theory, in one unedited video, plus a report of up to 2,500 words.

–2435%
Every paper, the IA and grade boundaries

Questions about Theatre

Useful for Theatre

  • Assessment and boundariesEach Theatre paper in full, the internal assessment and grade boundaries by session.
  • Grade calculatorTurn marks into a grade, or six grades and the core into Diploma points.

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