The title you give to someone who has written a play.
What is a playwright?
100
A play that includes music and dancing.
What is a musical?
100
When one actor speaks alone on stage.
What is a monologue/soliloquy?
200
The written form of a play.
What is a script?
200
Where a play/musical takes place.
What is setting?
200
When at least 2 characters are engaged in conversation.
What is dialogue?
300
The break that actors and the audience gets in between acts.
What is intermission?
300
A person that speaks from the side and gives important information, but is not necessarily included in the action.
What is a narrator?
300
Physical objects that actors use to show certain settings or actions in a play.
What are props?
400
Plays are divided into sections. The bigger of these sections are _______, and the smaller of these sections are ______.
What are acts and scenes?
400
The main action and events of a play.
What is plot?
400
3-D set pieces that are placed on stage in order to help create the setting of a play.
What are set pieces?
500
Plays are different than books because they are written to be ________.
What is performed?
500
The life lesson or "moral" that the audience learns from a play.
What is theme?
500
These describe how actors should move, act, or speak on stage (i.e. "cross downstage when you say your line"). They also give details about the setting/props that actors need.