Script Analysis
MIT OpenCourseWare offers this theater course on reading scripts with an eye toward staging a full production. Students work through a range of plays from different eras and styles, developing a method for identifying the interpretive choices a director or designer faces before rehearsals begin. Materials include the Fall 2005 syllabus, readings drawn from varied dramatic traditions, and written assignments that ask students to build a production concept from a text rather than just summarize its plot. The course includes an alternate readings and assignments section from that term for instructors or students who want a second sequence of plays to work through. No video lectures are included, but the syllabus and assignment sheets lay out a full semester structure for analyzing dramatic texts. Free to access through MIT OpenCourseWare, with no certificate offered.