Criteria
Evidence: the director’s notebook
• To what extent does the student explain the ideas addressed by the play text and explain how these are presented by the playwright? (As the author(s) of the text, the playwrightmight be one person, more than one person or in some cases a theatre company.)
• To what extent does the student research and explain the theoretical and/or cultural context(s) from which the play text originates?
Evidence: the director’s notebook
• To what extent does the student present a variety of artistic responses, creative ideas and explorations of the play text (prior to formulating their directorial intentions)?
• To what extent does the student make links to a range of experiences of live theatre they have experienced as a spectator, explaining how directors have createdmoments of tension, emotion, atmosphere and/or meaning?
C. Presenting theatre: The director’s intentions and intended impact
Evidence: the director’s notebook
• To what extent does the student explain their directorial intentions for the staging of the entire play text, supporting these intentions with a range of imaginativeproduction and performance ideas?
• To what extent does the student explain the impact they want the entire play to have on the audience and how performance and production (scenic and technical) elementswould together create this intended impact on the audience?
Evidence: the director’s notebook
• To what extent does the student explain how they would imaginatively stage two specific moments of the play ensuring the play text is not edited, cut or altered?
• To what extent does the student explain how they would use their performance and production (scenic and technical) elements in the two specific moments of the play toeffectively create tension, emotion, atmosphere and/or meaning for an audience?
• Candidates who only address one specific moment of the play will not be awarded a mark higher than 4 in this criterion.