Archival Footage

In preparation for the upcoming TPPPs, here are some long lost videos from our 2010 unit on Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed. Some photos are also available, buried over here somewhere.

Great IPP resource

Posted by on Nov 30, 2011 in Theatre, Theatre in the Making | No Comments

Wrapping your head around IB assessment criteria is never anybody’s idea of a good time. Thanks to Seamus then for finding this excellent article on Triple A Learning‘s blog, which breaks the IPP criteria down in a natural way. They take the example of a student writing a script for in Independent Project, and walk ...

11/15: Puppet Making

Posted by on Nov 17, 2011 in IB Daily, Theatre in the Making | No Comments

And now, onto puppets. Those of you who followed my travels over the summer will be completely unsurprised to find Matt Acheson’s collaborative puppet workshop xeroxed into my own course. I’m also lifting liberally from materials graciously provided by Mary Robinette Kowal, whose Twitter feed becomes positively hair-raising when she is constructing puppets. In Wednesday’s ...

Notes from a puppeteer

Posted by on Mar 2, 2011 in Theatre, Theatre in the Making | No Comments

I don’t know Mary Kowal, but she knows my friend Rob, and the two of them are working on a stage adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s novel Odd and the Frost Giants. The play involves a number of animal characters, namely a fox, an eagle, and a bear, and she is developing the puppets that will ...