ABSTRACT
A musical score holds all of the necessary marks for a musician to perform a piece of music. The composer provides the notes; the conductor identifies phrasing, and the musician includes further marks that indicate ideas or reminders of how to execute the task of playing the instrument. Actors can also create scores that diagram how they navigate through performances of Shakespeare's texts. Shakespeare's texts are very complex; creating a system of notation to read those elements helps actors to include all of the components they've explored throughout their creative process. It also serves as a visual prompt that can fuel creative exploration in the rehearsal studio and in performance. The Shakespeare score is comprised of several components: the structure of the verse, the development of thoughts, the use of language, the dynamics of orthography, and the process of balance—the ways in which ideas are formulated and considered.
