Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers

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Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers, Sixth Edition teaches the skills of script analysis using a formalist approach that examines the written part of a play to evaluate its potentials for performance and production. This new edition offers a more streamlined experience for the reader and features new and revised content, such as a fully updated chapter on postmodern drama, new sections on Associative Thinking and Ambiguous Terms in the Introduction, and revised appendices featuring The Score of a Role and expanded treatments of Functional Analysis for Designers and Further Questions for Script Analysis. Explorations of both classic and unconventional plays are combined with clear examples, end-of-chapter summaries, and stimulating questions that will allow actors, directors, and designers to immediately incorporate the concepts and processes into their theatre production work. An excellent resource for students of Acting, Script Analysis, Directing, and Playwriting courses, this book provides the tools to effectively bring a script to life on stage. Dedication Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Action Analysis 2 Foundations of the Plot: Given Circumstances 3 Foundations of the Plot: Background Story 4 Plot: External and Internal Action in the Dialogue 5 Plot: Progressions and Structure 6 Character 7 Idea 8 Dialogue 9 Tempo, Rhythm, and Mood 10 Style 11 A Case Study of Postmodern Drama: Heiner Müller’s Hamletmachine Appendix A: The Score of a Role Appendix B: Functional Analysis for Designers Appendix C: Further Questions for Script Analysis Bibliography Index