Why is a play script described as a blueprint rather than a finished work?

Because it is incomplete on the page and only suggests the voices, movement, design and feeling that performance must supply

What does it mean to read a script actively?

To imagine the delivery, movement, position, space and mood the text implies, turning flat words into a living picture

Story is the chronological sequence of events; plot is the deliberate selection and arrangement of those events for effect

Exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, resolution

What they want in a scene, stated as an active aim

The character's overriding want across the whole play

Drama comes from the collision of active wants and real obstacles, which creates struggle, tension and conflict

The meaning beneath the words, what a character feels or wants but does not state

Through delivery such as tone, pace, pause and stress, and through the body

Advances the plot, shows relationships and status, builds mood and tension, and carries theme

Designers, directors, actors and technical teams, as part of the blueprint

What looks daring, dutiful or ordinary depends on the social, historical and cultural expectations of the world depicted

Subject is the surface topic; theme is the deeper idea the play explores, best stated as a short idea

Through character choices, conflict, consequences, contrasts, symbols and structure that the audience infers from

Through choices such as a vast empty space, cold light and a lonely central figure

The analytical response turns each textual feature into a specific staging, acting or design choice and explains its intended effect

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