Literary elements
The written words of a drama
What is script?
A term used to refer to the middle of a stage. Commonly referred to as "center center."
What is center stage?
Actors do this onstage.
What is act?
The word 'komos' is known as what today?
What is comedy?
What are costumes?
The main message a playwright wants to get across with their drama
Actors enter and exit stage through these. Space between hanging curtains, or legs.
What are wings?
Musicals have these performance elements, whereas plays do not.
What is singing and dancing?
Name the two types of theatre dramas.
What are comedy and tragedy?
A small, moveable object.
What is a prop?
Found in the script, what actors portray onstage
What is character?
T/F House left is the same as stage right.
What is true?
A type of performance where body movement, facial expressions, and reactions convey a story without speaking.
What is non-verbal expression?
Theatre as we know it today developed from this distant time and land.
What is ancient Greece?
The technical element used to help set the mood of a play.
Another name for plot, referring only to dramas
What is dramatic structure?
We base our stage directions on where this is located.
What is audience/house?
Acting is the action of using these two actions to create a character.
What are speaking and moving?
The storytelling element people use to act out stories since the start of human kind.
What is pantomime?
The use of body paint, wigs, and costumes to transform an actor into a character.
What is makeup?
What is conflict?
Area of a stage where run crew is hidden from the audience, typically where dressing rooms are located.
What is backstage?
The instrument an actor uses onstage.
What is the voice or body?
A traditional story, sometimes involving supernatural beings, gods, or events.
What is a myth?
The physical world built to convey the stories setting.
What is set/scenery?