Scripts
Words spoken by any actor playing a character in a play or film.
What are lines?
The main character of a story, this person is usually the hero of the tale.
What is a protagonist?
When you perform a two person scene, this person works alongside you.
What is a scene partner?
This dramatic Genre usually focuses on more serious themes, like the downfall of a hero or family turmoil.
What is tragedy?
This spontaneous form of drama scene or game involves no written script.
What is improv?
This document tells an audience which actors will be playing which roles.
What is a cast list?
Every story, long or short, must have these three things.
What are beginning, middle, and end?
What is a monologue?
This Genre deals with funnier, lighthearted themes and often pokes fun at people in power.
What is Comedy?
Mr. Yarbrough's 3rd rule, these must always be created by the students or accidents will happen.
What are safe spaces?
A book has chapters; a play has this.
What are Acts?
A form of theatre in which actors hold their scripts and read aloud to the audience.
What is Reader's Theatre?
Any time two or more characters speak to each other in a scene, they are engaging in this.
What is dialogue?
The Ancient Greeks used these to show different emotions, as well as to show a change from one character to another.
What are masks?
When we say "Yes, And", we are really giving our partners this.
What is support?
The "book" containing a play, this document contains all of the spoken words and stage directions.
What is a script?
This word can refer to a problem, an argument, or an obstacle within a scene.
What is Conflict?
In a scene, this is what a character wants, or wants to achieve.
What is an objective?
Literally, "God from the Machine". The Ancient Greeks used this device to solve an otherwise unsolvable conflict within a play.
What is Deus Ex Machina?
You and your fellow artists must have this, or no one will be able to work together.
What is Respect?
Actors must do this with their script if they want to perform without it in their hands.
What is memorize?
Where the story takes place. This may change between scenes or acts.
What is the setting?
In an acting class, students must perform this before their scene.
What is an introduction?
This Ancient Greek performer is widely regarded as the first actor, or the father of acting.
Who is Thespis?
The one thing Mr. Yarbrough wants all of his students to have.
What is Fun?