Unit #4: Script Analysis

Resource: #TheatreAppreciation (Chapter 3)

Methods for dissecting an existing script for useful information for the actor (i.e. how to discover the given circumstances, clues to a character’s intentions and obstacles, actions required by the script, indications of character embedded in how a character speaks, finding the conflict and crisis, etc.)

Methods for breaking down a script into playable units, or ‘beats’

Methods for understanding the lines spoken by a character (i.e. word choice, rhythms of speech, repeated images, dialects, regionalisms, etc.)

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