9. An electronic device for presenting a script to a user, me electronic device comprising: memory; a processor communicatively coupled to the memory; and an interactive script environment communicatively coupled to the memory and the processor, wherein the interactive script environment is configured to perform a method comprising: presenting via a user interface of an electronic device a list of a plurality of character roles in a script; receiving from the user, using the user interface of the electronic device, a selection of one or more active character roles in a set of active and non-active character roles, each of the active character roles includes one or more of role names, dialogue, and stage directions associated therewith within the script; receiving from the user, using the user interface of the electronic device, a selection of one or in response to receiving a selection from the user, visually altering an appearance by redacting the one or more lines of dialogue associated with the active character roles to distinguish these lines of dialog from the one or more lines of dialog associated with the nonactive character roles; presenting via the user interface of the electronic device a list of a plurality of display modes for the script; and in response to receiving a display mode selection from the user of a role mode, presenting, on the user interface on a first screen of the electronic device, at least a portion of the script in which contiguous lines for the active character roles together on the user interface of the electronic device at a first time period and then presenting contiguous lines for the non-active character roles together on the user interface of a second screen separate from the first screen at a second time period thereby producing an alternating presentation sequence in time of the contiguous lines of the script for the active character roles followed by the contiguous lines of the script for the non-active character roles, wherein the non-active character roles comprise plurality of non-active character roles of the script and playing the non-active character roles using at least one of prerecorded audio and synthesized text-to-speech.
10. The electronic device of claim 9 , wherein the one or more lines of dialogue associated with the active character roles are highlighted.