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Play Analysis You Can Count On!

This podcast is an ongoing conversation between Derek Kolluri and Jeremy Lee Cudd about plays and analyzing them.

Episode 00 introduces some concepts and organization for how we will approach and shape our play discussions.

Our Organizational Buckets / Containers / Sections:

Origin, Provenance

Ingredients, Casting, Setting, Notes, Quotes, Hints, Biography, and other Context Clues

Structural Overview

Summary - Dramatic Actions, Digesting the Story through close readings and distillation

Synthesis Discussion - Locating the Spine and Building out from it - Story Beats, Dramatic Action/Question, Themes, POV of the Storyteller, Personal POV on the Text, Dialogue with the Zeitgeist

Moment-to-Moment Breakdown of an Example Scene - zooming to the Actor Beat level, building to the Story Beat, while referencing the relationship to the overall structural thrust

Our first cluster of episodes will be dedicated to GLORIA by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.