When a playwright starts working on their play, they might not think about the format first. But once inspiration strikes, the structure of their script is what brings their vision to life on stage.

Yesterday, I introduced you to the first three things you need to know about analyzing a script before your next audition. Today, I bring you four tidbits to add to your script analyzing arsenal. 1.

A clean script is an incomplete object: it might contain all the lines, but it’s only a fragment of the information an actor needs to give a detailed and accomplished performance. That’s where script ...