TA 38 — Script Analysis
Principles, theories and techniques of play script analysis for theatrical production. This course explores an in-depth methodology of reading, analyzing and understanding play scripts in a variety of genres and styles intended for production. Investigating techniques used to determine how to read a play for its structure, scrutinizing the playwright's methods of creating theatre through plot, character and imagery, and understanding what scripts "mean"; to the professional theatre artist and theatre-goer as distinct from other forms of literature. (A, CSU, UC)