Acting and Theatre Vocab

A piece of dramatic work for the stage

• a play

• stage

• dialogue

The person who makes decisions and tells the actors what to do

• director

• cast

• monologue

to practice the lines of the play before there is an audience (a verb)

• to act

• to rehearse

• to sing

what the actors say in the play or film

• actor/actress

• lines

• comedy

a play with a sad or unhappy ending

• curtain

• comedy

• tragedy

one actor speaking for a long time

• script

• scenery

• monologue

all the people in the play

• tragedy

• cast

• scene

the person in the film or in the theatre

Example: Tom Holland

• actor/actress

• director

• to rehearse

the papers that have everything the actors say and everything that happens in the play or film

• to act

• script

• scenery

a section of the play or film;

the play or film is usually divided into these

• scene

• curtain

• comedy