Drama Vocabulary

changes each time the setting changes

• characters

• scene

• playwright

a piece of writing that tells a story and is acted out on stage

• characters

• drama

• prop

made of many scenes

• act

• dialogue

• playwright

specific instructions to the actors

• stage directions

• narrator

• playwright

the ones that read dialogue

• stage directions

• playwright

• characters

a chair on the stage is an example of a...

• scene

• script

• prop

the names shown in the script right before the lines of dialogue

• drama

• dialogue

• characters

the lines of the script that the actors speak out loud

• drama

• dialogue

• characters

gives additional information and fills in details

• act

• narrator

• scene

the person who wrote the play

• playwright

• narrator

• dialogue