Elements of Drama
The series of related events that make up a story.
What is plot?
What is a person who writes plays called?
Playwright
Any work meant to be performed for an audience.
What is drama?
A playwright's written instructions about how actors should move and behave.
What are stage directions?
A struggle between a character and opposing characters or opposing forces.
What is conflict?
What do stage directions tell us?
What the characters are doing
What is the cast of characters?
All of the characters, usually portrayed by actors
Any work meant to be performed for an audience.
What is drama?
The time and place in which a story occurs.
What is setting?
Who tells us the story of a play?
Narrator
Stage Directions
written instructions telling the actors what to do
The text of a play.
What is a script?
A person (or an animal) in a literary work
What is character?
What does a script tell us?
the text of the play
The person who tells what happens during the play
What is the narrator?
The words characters speak.
What is dialogue?
The words characters speak.
What is dialogue?
What is an act?
A chapter in a play that contains more than one scene
Meant to be performed live, on a stage.
What is theatrical drama?
What is a drama or play
a story performed by actors on a stage