Elements of Drama
The series of related events that make up a story.
What is plot?
The author of a play
Who is the playwright?
A piece of writing that tells a story and is acted out on a stage
What is drama?
Character Types: Darth Vader, Iron Man/Tony Stark, Paul Atreides (Dune), Simba
What are dynamic characters?
The musical Hairspray takes place in what great city?
What is Baltimore?
A struggle between a character and opposing characters or opposing forces.
What is conflict?
A type of play that has a happy ending.
What is a comedy?
a dramatic part of a story, at a specific time and place, between specific characters.
What are scenes?
This character type is one-dimensional with one or two personality traits like a soldier, funny best friend, or the Big Bad Wolf.
What is flat?
In this musical, the character was an orphan and adopted a dog named Sandy.
What is Annie?
The time and place in which a story occurs.
What is setting?
A speech in which a character speaks to a silent or absent listener in a moment of deep emotion.
What is monologue?
The main sections of a drama, like a chapter of a book.
What are Acts?
Let it GOOOO! And peel off those layers because this character's story will slowly unfold.
What is round?
This smash hit musical tells the story of the founding fathers of the United States.
A person (or an animal) in a literary work
What is character?
What is song/music?
In a 5-act play, usually during act 3, this is the moment of the highest tension and emotion for the actors and audience.
This character, like Scar from the Lion King will be the same from beginning to the end.
The musical West Side Story, which tells the story of rival gangs in New York City’s Upper West Side, is based on this Shakespeare play.
What is Romeo & Juliet?
The words characters speak.
What is dialogue?
This ancient Greek philosopher was one of the greatest thinkers of all time and defined tragedy as the imitation of an action.
Who is Aristotle?
Specific instructions to the actors, indicating stage actions, movements of performers, or production requirements.
What are stage directions?
These are the unique qualities such as vocal, physical, emotional/personality, intellectual, of a person, animal, or object in a story.
What are character traits?
This movie turned broadway musical hit (also Ms. Williams' favorite musical of all time) shares a similar plot with Shakespeare's Hamlet.
What is The Lion King?