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THTR 2081 - Script Analysis

Credits: 2
Hours/Week: Lecture 2 Lab None
Course Description: This course invites students to learn how plays are transformed from written text into live theatre performance. Students will examine how a play moves, looks, sounds, and feels onstage. Through the perspectives of directing, acting, and designing, plays are explored and envisioned to create unique and stage-worthy interpretations. Students read, respond to, examine, and write about plays. Students collaborate as artistic teams to create their interpretations and share them with the class.
MnTC Goals
None

Prerequisite(s): THTR 1020  or consent of instructor. Course placement into college-level English and Reading OR completion of ENGL 0950  with a grade of C or higher OR completion of RDNG 0940  with a grade of C or higher and qualifying English Placement Exam OR completion of RDNG 0950  with a grade of C or higher and ENGL 0090  with a grade of C or higher OR completion of ESOL 0051  with a grade of C or higher and ESOL 0052  with a grade of C or higher.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content
  1. Interpreting texts (at least 6 texts from categories below will be read by the class):
    1. Greek or Roman
    2. Renaissance
    3. Restoration
    4. Realism
    5. Anti-Realism or Theatricalism
    6. Non-Western Perspectives
    7. Post Modernism
  2. Director/Designer Collaboration
  3. Foundational aspects of a text
    1. Genre, Plot/movement, Imagery, Dialogue, etc. Interpreting texts:
  4. Overview of noteworthy interpretations
  5. How plays “live” (responding as an artist)
  6. Artistic/production perspectives on a text
    1. Directing
    2. Acting
    3. Scenery and Properties Design
    4. Costume Design
    5. Lighting Design
  7. Presentation of Projects

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. interpret a text using director, actor, and designer frameworks.
  2. employ tools to take apart the inner workings of play texts.
  3. analyze a text from director, actors, and designers points of view.
  4. describe how specific texts delineate and demand specific parameters for interpretation.
  5. articulate how a play moves, looks, sounds, and feels on stage.
  6. create a visual representation of their ideas for staging a specific text.
  7. describe (in verbal and written forms) their process of interpreting a text from page to stage.

Competency 1 (1-6)
None
Competency 2 (7-10)
None


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