Script Analysis

Catalog description

This course is an introduction to some of the most common tools of script analysis used by designers, performers, stage managers, technicians, dramaturgs, playwrights, and other artists of the theatre. The class proceeds by examining diverse scripts in a variety of ways that help to reveal their actable / designable / directable values. Understanding any given script's inherent dramatic values is a foundational first step to making informed, meaningful, and exciting choices for its production. It is also a foundational first step toward informed, meaningful, and exciting discussions of text and productions. Ultimately, it is the development of the student's (often discipline specific) ability to recognize a script's hidden potential that is the true goal of the course.