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
assignment_turned_in 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.)