THTR 2152 - Script Analysis
3 Credits
Focus on analyzing play scripts with a view to discovering production and performance values and aesthetics. Students will read, interpret and respond to a wide variety of plays from different periods and styles. Critical analysis of structure, character, theme, dialogue, genre, and style relating to the play script. Emphasis placed on plays as performance texts and fundamental techniques used by actors, directors and designers to analyze scripts in preparation for performance.
Major Content Areas
Dramatic literature from varying eras and cultures.Literary elements as they are used in drama, such as plot structure, genre, subtext, and conflict. Analytic approaches to drama as text and performance. The cultural and historical context of selected dramatic literature. The role of drama as a cultural, historical, political or personal artifact. Critical writing in response to drama. Elements of production for selected plays.
Learning Outcomes
Read or view a play and use appropriate theatre terminology to express an informed personal, critical reaction to the text or to the particular elements of a specific production, including its classification of dramatic structure, genre, and styleas well as the ways in which the performers and designers may have interpreted the playwright’s intent. 1. Use appropriate theatre terminology to analyze a script to identify elements such as genre, conflict, plot structure, units/beats, subtext, theme, style, social context, etc. through oral and/or written responses. Describe how theatre conventions are shaped by the culture and time in which they are written. Analyze and interpret plays from diverse cultures and time periods using different perspectives, such as actor, designer, or director.
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MNTC) Goals
06 - Humanities/Fine Arts
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