introduction to drama quiz

What is Drama?

• script

• is written to be performed by actors
  and watched by an audience.

• The word drama comes from the Greek word for
  “action.”

• play

• A play in written form is called a .

(a)  

The playwright must write the (a)   , or what the characters say to each other in conversation

• which tells how the play is to be performed.

• Stage directions

• Movement

• Music

• life

(a)   is the practice of putting on the play

________are the scenery, backdrops, and furniture that create the setting.

• color

• sets

• backdrop

• paint

(a)   is a guide to the show for the audience.

The actors and actresses who perform the play are known as the

• dress up

• actors

• players

• cast

A play is largely divided up into parts, or (a)  

Acts may be further divided into scenes

• playscript

• Scenes

• division

• words