Script Analysis
MIT OpenCourseWare offers this theater course on reading plays with an eye toward staging them. Students work through a range of scripts spanning different historical periods and dramatic styles, learning to identify the interpretive choices a text allows: how a scene can be blocked, how a line can be read, how a design concept follows from a textual detail. Class discussion centers on the production consequences of those choices, treating each script as a set of problems a director and designer must solve rather than a fixed literary object. Materials include the syllabus, reading list of plays, and assignments used in the MIT course, made available under an open license at no cost. There is no instructor video lecture series; the course is structured around close reading and discussion rather than recorded talks.