TFT 2150 — Play Analysis
TFT2150: Play Analysis will introduce participants to a spectrum of methodologies, tools, and approaches for the formal analysis of theatrical plays. Analysis will approach plays scripts as blueprints for theatrical production: script analysis comprises a vital activity of play production that shapes active, critically informed practitioners. Texts studied will represent and include a spectrum of theatrical styles, genres (i.e., tragedy, comedy, epic theater, musicals), works by diverse racial/ethnic and gender identities, and works that exemplify leading historical eras of theater making. Participants will also engage secondary readings that locate plays within historical and contemporary discourses. Participants will come to understand numerous systematic methodologies for critically examining plays, the relationship between form and content in drama, the strategies, structures, and tropes of theatrical storytelling, and the aesthetic as well as socio-cultural work of theatrical representation.