Drama Vocabulary Review

A play designed to arouse intense emotion by exaggeration and fast moving action.

• Melodrama

• Tragedy

• Comedy

• Properties

The hero or leading character with whom the audience sympathizes.

• Antagonist

• Motivation

• Protagonist

• Actor

The character who opposes or competes with the protagonist.

• Actor

• Antagonist

• Audience

• Atmosphere

All of the stage furnishings, objects, etc.

• Properties

• Plot

• Aside

• Motivation

Mood or feeling of the play.

• Upstage

• Audience

• Actor

• Atmosphere

Important central idea presented by the play.

• Plot

• Aside

• Act

• Theme

The chain of events that make up the play.

• Plot

• Motivation

• Theme

• Dialogue

Left the stage from the actor's point of view.

• Stage right

• Stage left

• Upstage

• Downstage

Right of the stage from the actor's point of view.

• Stage right

• Stage left

• Upstage

• Downstage

Area of the stage away from the footlights.

• Stage left

• Stage right

• Upstage

• Downstage