Every subtopic of DP Theatre, ready to teach.

Across 12 lessons and 4 topics, this unit moves from close reading and contextualisation of a play text through the development of a directorial vision — integrating set, costume, lighting, and sound — to the application of acting techniques, ensemble rehearsal, and the theatrical conventions and staging approaches that shape how a production speaks to its audience. The key concept of Transformation runs throughout, with Interpretation and Presentation addressed at the points where analysis and evaluation of performance choices are central.

Skills & assessment. Lessons develop students' capacity to analyse and interpret written texts as performance blueprints, to articulate and refine directorial and design decisions, and to evaluate staging choices against communicative intent — skills directly applicable to the Director's Notebook and the practical components of the course.

Across 12 lessons and 4 topics, this unit moves from identifying and researching specific world theatre traditions — their origins, ritual functions, and cultural contexts — through hands-on experimentation with physical, vocal, mask, and ceremonial techniques, to a critical examination of theatre as cultural and social practice and a study of key practitioners and theorists associated with those traditions. Key concepts addressed include Perspective, Tradition, Transformation, Communication, and Performance.

Skills & assessment. Students develop the research, comparative, and practical skills required for the Research Presentation — including the ability to analyse conventions across traditions, engage ethically with unfamiliar forms, and apply practitioner methodologies to their own theatre-making.

Across 12 lessons and 4 topics, this unit addresses every stage of the collaborative devising process — generating and structuring original material from a range of stimuli, negotiating and fulfilling distinct creative roles, managing ensemble decision-making, and documenting the process through ongoing reflection. Key concepts addressed include Collaboration, Transformation, Structure, and Presentation.

Skills & assessment. Lessons build the practical and reflective skills central to the Collaborative Project — including articulating individual contribution within a collective outcome, assessing the effectiveness of artistic choices against communicative intent, and responding productively to audience feedback and creative conflict.

Across 9 lessons and 3 topics, this HL-only unit guides students through selecting and researching a theatre theorist, experimenting with training and performance techniques derived from that theorist's work, and constructing, rehearsing, and refining an original solo theatre piece in which theory is made physically and dramatically present. Key concepts addressed include Perspective, Inquiry & Analysis, Transformation, Interpretation, and Presentation.

Skills & assessment. Every lesson builds directly towards the Solo Theatre Piece — developing students' ability to research and articulate a theoretical framework, make and justify artistic decisions within that framework, and evaluate their own work through iterative self-assessment and reflection.