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