Stage Directions
The background of the play?
What is the scenery?
This can be detailed or minimal, and help the set the style of the play.
What is the costumes?
A conversation among characters.
What is a dialogue?
A story written to be acted in front of an audience.
Plays broken into smaller parts.
What are acts?
Items that the characters carry or handle on the stage.
What are props?
Acts are broken down into smaller parts.
What are scenes?
The written version of a drama.
What is a Script?
Notes to the actors, directors, and readers.
What are stage directions?
Stage directions reveal information about ______, _______, and ________.
What are sets, movement, and emotion?
The five basic elements of drama.
What are dialogue, stage directions, script, act, and scene?
The word comes from the Greek verb meaning "to do".
What is Drama?
Describe how stage directions are written.
What is printed in italics and enclosed in square brackets?
The four things of scene design.
What are the sets, lighting, costumes, and props?
The chapters of a drama.
What are ACTS?
Although drama shares many elements with stories, essays, and poetry it is different because...
What is designed to be preformed for an audience?
Stage directions also give instruction about _________ and __________.
What is special effects and how actors should move and speak?
Changes the mood and appearance of the set.
What is the lighting?
The three ways a character's personality is revealed.
What is how a character looks, what the character says, and how the character acts?
Two types of dramas.
What are comedies and tragedies?