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Sep 07, 2024
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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
- Interpreting texts (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
- Director/Designer Collaboration
- Foundational aspects of a text
- Genre, Plot/movement, Imagery, Dialogue, etc. Interpreting texts:
- 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
- Presentation of Projects
Learning Outcomes At the end of this course students will be able to:
- interpret a text using director, actor, and designer frameworks.
- employ tools to take apart the inner workings of play texts.
- analyze a text from director, actors, and designers points of view.
- describe how specific texts delineate and demand specific parameters for interpretation.
- articulate how a play moves, looks, sounds, and feels on stage.
- create a visual representation of their ideas for staging a specific text.
- 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 Courses and Registration
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