25
The Director’s Analysis of Style in a Playscript
This chapter deals with the crux of our discussion of style: how to do a style-analysis for a play from a directorial point of view. Once you have learned how to do this, you will no longer approach plays in a general way but will always look for the specifics of individualization. You will learn to recognize the distinctive elements of style in a play and in the work of a playwright. And you will understand that a director always directs a specific play, never a general play.
What to Look for in Analyzing Style
Style-analysis is based on play-analysis; this implies that you should not undertake it until you have completed an intensive analysis of the content of a play—a play-analysis—in ...
Get Play Directing, 7th Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
