Drama Terms

Drama

• Where and when the drama takes place.

• A story meant to be acted out in front of an audience.

• The people or animals in the play.

Stage Directions

• The sequence of events in the play.

• Objects needed for the play.

• tell the actors what to do, how to say something and where to go.

Characters

• Scenery, props, furniture in the play.

• the actions that take place in one setting.

• the people or animals in the drama

Scene

• someone who gives extra information in the drama

• the actions that take place in one setting. I only change when the setting changes.

• the message of the play

Playwright

• a story meant to be acted out using dialogue.

• the person who wrote the drama.  

• the people or animals in the play.

Narrator

• someone who gives extra information in the drama

• the person who wrote the play.

• the written form of the drama

The _______________ is the written form of the play.

Setting

• lines or conversations the characters say

• beginning, middle, and end

• when and where the drama takes place.

Dialogue

• tell characters what to do, how to say something and where to go.

• the words in the play

• a story meant to be acted out using dialogue

Plot

• the sequence of events in the play.

• a big section of the drama including different scenes

• the written form of the drama