This is the list of characters that appear at the beginning of a play.
What is the cast of characters?
100
These are what characters wear to make their character appear more realistic.
What are costumes?
100
These are words used to describe a characters thoughts, actions, or personality.
What are character traits?
200
This is the written version of a play. Actors must have these to rehearse their parts.
What is a script?
200
This is what the actors perform on.
What is the stage?
200
These are the people that portray characters in a drama.
Who are actors and actresses?
300
These describe what a character should do or how a character should move during their performance.
What are stage directions?
300
This is on the stage and helps to make the audience feel like they are really in the world that the play is about. It uses to visual details to describe the world the play happens in.
What is a set?
300
Blake is a hard-working kid. He has lots of friends and likes to play sports. Blake does have trouble fishing, though. What is a character trait you could use to describe Blake?
Athletic, friendly, outgoing
400
These are large sections of a play.
What are Acts?
400
These are items that actors use or carry to make their performance more realistic.
What are props?
400
Karen is a playful girl who likes to laugh. She likes to tell people what to do during school and sometimes that gets her in trouble. She has a hard time turning homework in on time because she would rather play.
Lazy, playful, bossy
500
These are smaller sections of a play found within Acts.
What are Scenes?
500
These are conversations that actors and actresses have with each other on stage.
What is dialogue?
500
Bailey is very quiet when she meets new people. She just moved to a new town and likes to play the clarinet in her church band. Bailey has a hard time making new friends and misses her old friends from her old town.