Direction Module 2: Play Analysis

Course Outline

1. The Essential Theatre by Oscar G. Brockett
2. Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers by James Thomas

Play Texts

1. Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, Bangla tr. Khondokar Ashraf Hossain.
2. William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Bangla tr. Syed Samshul Huq.
3. Moliere, Tartuffe, Bangla tr. Lokanath Bhattacharya
4. Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House (Nora), Bangla tr. Khairul Alam Sabuj.
5. Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters.
6. Rabindranath Thakur, Raktakarabi
7. D. L. Ray, Shajahan.
8. Frank Wedekind, Spring Awakening.
9. Brecht, Bertolt. Life of Galileo.
10. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot.
11. Shahidul Zahir, Jīban O Rājnoitik Bāstabata.
12. Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis, Bangla tr. Shahman Moishan and Sharif Shiraj.