Drama Basics
Place where a drama performed.
What is the theatre?
The time and or place of the drama.
What is the setting?
The beginning, middle, and end of a story.
What is the plot?
A story written to be performed in front of an audience.
What is a drama or a play?
The written text of a drama called?
What is the script?
Something that can be carried on and off stage.
What is a prop?
Insight about life or a lesson to be learned
What is the theme?
Conversations between characters.
What is dialogue?
The writer of a drama.
What is the playwright.
The changes in a setting over time.
What is a scene?
The most exciting part of the play.
What is the climax?
The playwright's purpose for written a drama.
What is to entertain or perform?
A person who performs as a character.
What is an actor?
Describes the setting and actions of the characters.
What are the stage directions?
The ending of the story.
What is the resolution?
In a script, where do you find the stage directions?
What are brackets or parentheses?
What do you call a group of actors in a drama?
What is the cast?
Full-length dramas are divided into...
What are acts?
An issue or problem that occurs among characters that moves the story along.
What is the conflict?
What is the purpose of stage directions?
What is to tell the actors how to perform to show the characters traits and behaviors.