Elements of Drama
Elements of Play
Stage Types
Genres
Actor/Extra
100

Time and Place of a story

Setting

100

words between characters

Dialogue

100

Audience with round stage

In the Round Stage

100

Unfortunate events, makes the audience feel sad

Tragedy

100

Clothing worn by the actors to create characters

Costumes

200

Movement of body or limbs to show feeling

Gesture

200

Person in the play

Actor/Actress

200

Audience all around rectangular stage

Arena

200

Intended to make the audience laugh

Comedy

200

The person who composes the play

Playwright

300

How a play is subdivided

Scenes

300

written text of a play

Script

300

Stage with audience on the three sides

Thrust

300

Musicals and involves instruments

Opera

300

The place farthest away from the audience to the left of the "Actor's" perspective

Upstage Left

400

The story is wrapped up, the ending

Resolution 

400

Characters who support tyhe development of the story

Secondary Character

400

Audience on both sides and the stage is in the middle

Traverse

400

Typically to scare the audience

Horror/Thriller

400

When an actor pretending the audience isn't there

The Fourth Wall

500

Long speech made alone on stage

Soliloquy

500

The person who drives the story, mainly who the story is about

Main Character

500

Stage with Audience in the front only, has a frame

Proscenium

500

A play/movie made to express love or a relationship between two characters

Romance

500

Advice given to someone to help them better their performance

Constructive Criticism/Feedback