Director's notebook

The director's notebook is an assessment task both for HL and SL Theatre. It is externally assessed. At SL is it worth 35% of the total mark and at HL 20%.

The requirements are to produce a 20 page notebook with you ideas of how you would direct two scenes/moments from the play which you have chosen.

You need to research the cultural and/or theoretical context of the play and identify ideas the playwright may be addressing explore the play and record your own ideas regarding how this play may be staged for an audience.

You must explain your directorial intentions.

You must demonstrate an understanding of how performance and production elements function together to create these moments.

You need to reference live performances you have experienced and how these have influenced, inspired or informed the directing of these moments.

The notebook should include both words and pictures. Think creatively.

You are not permitted to edit, make additions or alterations to the play text selected for study. All sources must be acknowledged.

You must use these headings to structure the notebook.

1. The play text, its context and the ideas presented in the play

2. My artistic responses, creative ideas and explorations and my own experiences of live theatre as a spectator

3. My directorial intentions and the intended impact on an audience

4. How I would stage two moments of the play

Here is a great website packed with helpful ways of approaching the Director's Notebook and some examples. LINK