Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Theatre Script Analysis (Leigh Clemons)/Course description

Course description
This class, THTR 3130, focuses on understanding the many different forms of storytelling used by theatre practitioners. Students will learn how to read, analyze, and creatively interpret scripts for the purposes of production and research. By the end of this course, students will be able to identify various types of dramatic structures (through class discussion and written responses), merge the microcosmic world of the play with macrocosmic issues related to the text’s creation and reception (through oral presentations), identify how characters, dialogue and, sometimes, stage directions provide information needed to understand the play (through class discussion and quiz/responses), and synthesize all of these elements into an original play analysis project (final paper) in which you focus on a given play text from your chosen perspective as a theatre practitioner—actor, director, or designer.

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