Drama Roles
Script Terms
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100

Someone who pretends to be someone else while performing in a play?

Actor

100

A problem between characters that brings action important to the plot

Conflict

100

A story acted out as a play in front of a live audience

Drama

100

A signal given to people workin in or on a play

Cue

100

A group of scenes that form an important part of a play

Act

200

The characters or actors taking part in a play.

Cast

200

Lines spoken between characters in a play

Dialogue

200

The people watching a play

Audience

200

Clothing worn by an actor during a show

Costume
200

A person who writes plays

Playwright

300
People in a play who are represented by actors

Characters

300

The action of the play

Plot

300
The act of presenting a play
Performance
300
Objects used by actors in a play

Props

300

Where & when the story takes place

Setting
400
Person who works with the actors and decides how the show is present

Director

400

The action of solving a problem or conflict

Resolution

400

An actor's part in a play

Role

400

The area where actors perform

Stage

400

The moral, message, or lesson of a play or other work of fiction

Theme

500

A performer who speaks directly to the audience to tell a story or give information

Narrator

500

The written text of a play

Script

500

Part of an act in a play with a given place or time

Scene

500

The physical objects that suggest the world of the play

Set

500

Script parts in parentheses that tells actors how to move or speak their lines

Stage directions

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