The playwright's only option as far as a Union goes, where membership is optional, making strikes impossible.
What is an open-shop union?
100
Dialogue.
What is Te spoken text of the play?
100
These are the playwright's paint.
What are words?
100
It is how a story fits together in a play.
What is the Plot?
100
A formula plot usually always follows this.
What is a blueprint?
200
Money earned by the playwright, of which a percentage is usualy paid to the theater.
What are royalties?
200
Short descriptions used in plays, sometimes in italics or parentheses.
What is Parentheticals?
200
The hidden meaning behind words a character chooses to speak.
What is Subtext?
200
It is the playwright's selection of events created to make a logical sequence and as a result to distill meaning from the chaos of life.
What is Plot-Structure?
200
This is what lets the audience in on what happened to the characters before the play began and what happens between the scenes offstage.
What is Exposition or back story?
300
The powerful closed shop union of the Television and screenwriters.
What is the Writers Guild of America?
300
Notes that indicate the physical movements of the characters.
What is Stage directions?
300
It is a combination of what the character wants to say and what the character needs to say.
What is Dialogue?
300
A category of artistic work that has a particular form, style, or subject matter.
What is Genre?
300
The central character who pushes forward the action of the play.
What is the Protangonist?
400
The playwright's Union.
What is the Dramatist's Guild of America?
400
A statement about life, a central idea, or a moral in a play.
What is the the theme of the play?
400
Playwright's use this to be more like poets and write dialogue that allows the audience to see things in the mind's eye.
What is Imagery?
400
The struggle of opposing forces in the play.
What is Conflict?
400
This is when the protangonish comes to an understanding or realization as to how to defeat the antagonist.
What is Enlightenment?
500
Playwrights do this to make more money
What is taking writing jobs in Hollywood?
500
The character's deeds, their responses to circumstances, which in turn affect the story.
What is Actions?
500
Shakespeare used in order that the characters can describe their environment so that elaborate sets were not necessary.
What is Verbal Scene Painting?
500
It is the hook that keeps people in the theater for two hours or more because they want to know the answer.
What is the major dramatic question (MDQ)?
500
This is the final outcome of the play, a short final scene that allows the audience to appreciate the protangonist, because of the preceding events, has learned some great or humble lesson.