Time has come...

First week in IB theatre! All the years I have done theatre seem to be nothing compared to what is coming, as I realize how much things there are still to be learned, and how many things there are still to be done. So the time has come, the time is NOW.

Getting introduced to what the course is going to be like, for what are we getting prepared, can be a little scary. First of all we start learning some key points for oral presentations that will be finally reflected on the ppp (one of the IB theatre exams) and in the future. Oral presentations are usually boring to listen. Many people now use Power Point to help themselves to organize better their ideas while doing an exposition… but for this aid to work you need to follow some key points. To begin with; Title and your name in the first slide, that would be a great start! Then do not forget the table of contents. A good idea is to continue your presentation with slides just with pictures, no text! These images should help you explain what are you trying to tell and make people get connected with what you are saying. At the end, the sources… respect authors’ intellectual property.

Then we revised some things about “Commedia dell´ Arte”. In this type of theatre body must be really expressive, acrobatic and there must be many hand movements. The voice must be expressive too and there must be a focus on the sounds variations. Space is characterized by being dynamic, adaptable and the use of different heights. Finally characterization is always fixed for each character and very physical and exaggerated.

The School Play is coming up and “Giants” was the title for the presentation of the vision of it. As I understand; the vision is the projection or image of how you want the play to look like without having a story or concept yet. For the play the idea is to use puppets and masks…. Puppets can be small or big, and WE, the IB students are going to put all of our creativity and effort for our vision to come true. Actors in stilts, movable structures, people manipulating puppets and acting as them, a lot of deformity on the big puppets, and many other things that will come up as this play develops. As we finish with the vision then we got into the concept and the game of the play. Ideas were brought up into our minds and the game that’s going to use seems to be that each scene has the point of view of a particular character that will not be on stage, but represented by the audience.


The last class of the week we compared kabuki theatre and theatre for children. I realized that each theatre style has its own way of using the different stage elements, rules on for example ways of talking, ways of acting, etc.

Finally after my first week doing IB theatre I ask to my self; does doing a game get boring in large plays, or does it work as same than in short plays?