THTR 2081 - Script Analysis

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab 0
Internship hours per week 0
Course Description: This course explores how plays are transformed from written text into live theatre performance. Course topics focus on the collaborations among the areas of directing, acting, and designing in the creation of unique and stage-worthy interpretations of how a play moves, looks, sounds, and feels onstage. Additionally, course activities provide opportunities to read, respond to, examine, and write about plays.
MnTC Goals
N/A

Prerequisite(s): THTR 1020 or instructor consent. 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):
1. Greek or Roman
2. Renaissance
3. Restoration
4. Realism
5. Anti-Realism or Theatricalism
6. Non-Western Perspectives
7. Post Modernism
Director/Designer Collaboration
Foundational aspects of a text
1. 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
1. Directing
2. Acting
3. Scenery and Properties Design
4. Costume Design
5. 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.

Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC): Goals and Competencies N/A
Competency Goals (MnTC Goals 1-6)
None
Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 7-10)
None

Practicum hours per week: 0

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