Script Analysis for Theatre‎:‎ Tools for Interpretation‎,‎ Collaboration and Production provides theatre students and emerging theatre artists with the tools‎,‎ skills and a shared language to analyze play scripts‎,‎ communicate about them‎,‎ and collaborate with others on stage productions‎.‎ Based largely on concepts derived from Stanislavski‎'‎s system of acting and method acting‎,‎ the book focuses on action ‎- what characters do to each other in specific circumstances‎,‎ times‎,‎ and places ‎- as the engine of every play‎.‎ From this foundation‎,‎ readers will learn to distinguish the big picture of a script‎,‎ dissect and ‎'‎score‎'‎ smaller units and moment‎-to‎-moment action‎,‎ and create individualized blueprints from which to collaborate on shaping the action in production from their perspectives as actors‎,‎ directors‎,‎ and designers‎.‎Script Analysis for Theatre offers a practical approach to script analysis for theatre production and is grounded in case studies of a range of the most studied plays‎,‎ including Sophocles‎'‎ Oedipus the King‎,‎ Shakespeare‎'‎s Twelfth Night‎,‎ Henrik Ibsen‎'‎s Hedda Gabler‎,‎ Georg Buchner‎'‎s Woyzeck‎,‎ Oscar Wilde‎'‎s The Importance of Being Earnest‎,‎ Tennessee Williams‎'‎s A Streetcar Named Desire‎,‎ and Paula Vogel‎'‎s How I Learned to Drive‎,‎ among others‎.‎ Readers will develop the real‎-life skills professional theatre artists use to design‎,‎ rehearse‎,‎ and produce plays‎.‎

• Author‎:‎ Robert Knopf
• Publisher‎:‎ Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• ISBN‎:‎ 9781408184301