The agonies of an IB2 Theater during COVID IB2 Theatre Class, course description “IB Theatre Arts focuses upon building skills to allow students to critique, create, and analyze theater. Students are required to keep a journal and then demonstrate learning by doing four projects: Collaborative project (with 15 pages portfolio), 20 pages Director’s Notebook, 15-minute recorded presentation of a researched world theatre tradition, and a solo theatre piece with a 3000 words research paper based on a theatre theorist.” IC’s IB 2 theatre class had just finished writing up three original plays as part of the required IB collaborative project. Despite the school closure during the October Revolution, the class had managed to complete the scripts. Rehearsals were scheduled to begin in March. On February 28, Lebanon’s Education Ministry announced the closure of all schools as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus. The closure was thought to be only for a few days. Classes would surely continue normally. It wasn’t to be. Instead, as COVID-19 spread, IC went online. On March 24, IB issued a statement canceling the May exam session – except for group 6 subjects: Theatre, Film, and Arts. They were the only group required to submit all their components. The deadline was set towards the end of May. On March 27, IB suddenly brought forward the submission deadline to April 30 for group 6 subjects only. Teachers and students scrambled through the relatively new world of social platforms to get their projects completed. The university careers of the students depended heavily on passing their group 6 subject. The following is a heartwarming story of a theatre teacher and three of his eleven students and the trust developed between them.
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