Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The World of the Play Given circumstances Previous action Dramaturgy The writing of the play and order of scenes Character Environment 2 Structure and Action Point of attack Number of scenes Number of locations Number of characters Number of plots Type of causality Actions and objectives 3 Process Core action Avant-garde 4 Blueprints Given circumstances blueprint Character blueprint Relationship blueprint Structure blueprint Environment blueprint Appendices A. Action Verbs B. Sample Scores Select Bibliography Index Biographical
Drawing on the author's lifetime of experience, this core text offers a practical, clear guide to analyzing play scripts so that theatre students and emerging theatre artists are equipped to collaborate on successful stage productions.
Robert Knopf teaches script analysis, directing, and improvisation at University at Buffalo/SUNY, USA where he is Director of Theatre Studies and Professor of Theatre. A theater director, scholar, and writer, Robert Knopf is the author of two books, The Theater and Cinema of Buster Keaton and The Director as Collaborator. He edited Theater and Film and co-edited the seminal two-volume critical anthology,Theater of the Avant-Garde. He has directed plays at Circle-in-the-Square Downtown, Cherry Lane Studio, Paradise Factory, Circle Rep Lab, and New York's historic Town Hall, as well as for National Public Radio.
Script Analysis for Theatre provides excellent techniques developed
over a lifetime of work with actors, directors, designers, in the
classroom and on stage. The book is seasoned, smart and practical,
equipping students with an essential toolbox for engaging with
scripts.
*Jim Volz, Professor of Theatre History at California State
University at Fullerton, USA*
I am deeply impressed by the precise way in which it fuses a broad
theoretical understanding of drama with the practical analysis of
texts, and have little but praise for it. I am very familiar with
the range of existing script analysis texts, and this is one of the
few I would consider assigning in full to an undergraduate script
analysis class.
*Art Borreca, Iowa Playwrights Workshop, Department of Theatre
Arts, University of Iowa, USA*
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