Script Analysis for Actors, Directors and Designers continues to serve both the practical and creative experiences of theatrical production. Students will immediately be able to incorporate the concepts and processes they learn and benefit from clear examples, end-of-chapter questions and summaries created to stimulate ingenuity as they engage in production work. Based on the premise that plays should be objects of study in and of themselves, Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers teaches an established system of classifications that examines the written part of a play. This fourth edition includes in-depth analysis of unconventional plays, which are exploding on amateur and professional stages. These plays present unique analytical challenges that the author teaches the unusual ways in which the subject matter operates in unconventional plays.