21M.710 | Fall 2011 | Undergraduate

Script Analysis

Course Description

This course focuses on reading a script theatrically with a view to mounting a coherent production. Through careful, intensive reading of a variety of plays from different periods and different aesthetics, a pattern emerges for discerning what options exist for interpretating a script.

The [Fall 2005 …

This course focuses on reading a script theatrically with a view to mounting a coherent production. Through careful, intensive reading of a variety of plays from different periods and different aesthetics, a pattern emerges for discerning what options exist for interpretating a script.

The Fall 2005 version of this course contains alternate readings and assignments sections.

Learning Resource Types
Written Assignments with Examples
The heads of two people peek out from the top of garbage bins.
A scene from MIT Dramashop’s production of “Endgame.” (Photo taken by Ian Martin. Courtesy of MIT Dramashop.)