Script Analysis ONLINE with James Price class is ideal for actors, directors and playwrights who seek to understand how to break down a script into it's vital components in order to build a captivating performance; one that tells a story that is affective, believable, emotionally compelling and clear. For actors, how to properly analyze a scene based on the text is the key to understanding the scene and determining what choices to make in order to build a performance. The class teaches the actor how to read the text forward and backward in leaving "no stone unturned" in regard to looking for the hidden meaning and actions underlying each word, and what to do with them. The Script analysis class will focus on discovery of:
Script Analysis: Liberating the text by breaking our habits of reading.
Many actors approach a script as readers rather than as living, breathing human beings. From grade school onward, we have been taught to obey punctuation, emphasize certain words, and follow the rules of reading. Those habits serve us well in the classroom—but they can limit us as actors.
A character has never read the dialogue. The words are not being recited; they are being discovered in the moment as life happens to them.
In this class, we identify and eliminate the reading and memorization habits that interfere with truthful behavior. We learn to free ourselves from the intellect's need to "perform" the text and instead allow the text to emerge naturally from genuine human experience. Ironically, by stopping ourselves from reading the script, we begin to uncover its full power.
The goal is not to ignore the text, but to liberate it.
STUDENT TESTIMONIAL: AUG 2024
"I truly enjoyed attending and participating in your recent Script Analysis course. I completed both an undergraduate and graduate course in Play Analysis, and I want to honestly say I learned more about drama dialogue, and the importance of what is underneath the dialogue spoken by characters in your Script Analysis course than I did in my college Play Analysis courses. The tools I learned in your class will continue to assist me in understanding drama text/dialogue in my upcoming Fall 24 graduate studies courses and program in Applied Theater at the CUNY School of Professional Studies." Rafael R.
| Session: | Term | Instructor | Day | Hours | Begins | Fee | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2027; online | 4 weeks | James Price | Wed | EST: 7-9 pm |
Feb 3, 2027 | $300 | open |
| Summer 2027; online | 4 weeks | James Price | Wed | EST: 7-9 pm |
Jul 14, 2027 | $300 | open |
