ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how, as a director, deal with a script, focusing on each step in the process. It notes that script analysis tends to go hand in hand with research. The reason is that both these aspects of directing have a somewhat symbiotic relationship. Script analysis is divided into five categories, with each of those categories further separated into individual topics. Structure, Story, Character, Text and Overall. Structure deals with the shape and format of a play. The action, of course, is performed by (and to, and at, and with, and other prepositions) the characters. Actors are taught, when developing their characters, to learn as much about them as possible, and develop them in as much detail as possible. The text is where we find the most information in any script: more than the stage directions or character descriptions, it is the text that is the key to everything that happens in the play.
