Introduction to Drama
The word drama comes from which language?
What is Greek
Who writes a play?
What is a playwright.
What is dialogue?
What is what the character says.
What are tragedy and comedy.
[Character 1 enters from upstage right and stomps angrily to center stage.]
What is this an example of?
What are Stage Directions.
The word drama comes from the Greek word "dran" which means?
What is to do or to act.
What does the script include?
What is a cast of characters, dialogue, and stage directions.
What is a monologue?
What is a long speech by one actor in a play.
Daily Double: What is a solioquy?
What is speaking one's thoughts aloud by yourself.
Acts are divided into smaller units called this.
What are scenes.
Drama is a genre of what?
What is literature?
At least how many acts is a play divided into?
What is two.
What are stage directions?
What is a description of the set or props; an instruction for the actors of how to move and/or speak.
What type of drama shows the downfall or death of a tragic hero?
A designated space for the performance of a dramatic production.
What is a stage.
Who is drama performed by?
Who are actors.
What is between acts?
What is an intermission.
What appears in italics on a script?
What are stage directions.
What type of drama involve confusion, jokes and a happy ending?
What are comedies.
Any lines spoken between two or more actors are considered this.
What is dialogue.
Who is drama performed for?
What is an audience, either on stage or before a camera.
What is an intermission?
What is a break.
What is a narrator?
What is someone who is speaking to the audience, but is not take part in the action.
Plays are divided into large units called this.
What are acts.
The people who perform in the play.
What are actor(s).