Drama 101

Drama

• A story written to be performed on stage

• When people can't get it together

• Anything that happens on stage

• Serious plays- not the funny ones

Theatre Arts

• Set design and costume design

• Acting and directing

• The study of playwrighting

• ALL parts of training or instruction in the field of theater

Script

• The font used in a play

• Slang for subscription

• a written copy of the dialogue that the actors will speak.

• The program for a play

Character

• the personality an actor portrays in a scene or play that is different from his or her own personality.

• A really wild person

• A quality that a person has that makes them noble

• A type of actor that focuses on tricky parts

Acting

• Having influence over

• A performance that happens on a stage

• an actor’s assumed behavior for the purpose of projecting a character to an audience.

• What happens before reacting

Play

• To have fun

• a story in dialogue form to be acted out by actors before a live audience.

• To move forward at regular speed

• To not take something seriously

Dramatic structure

• The set

• The events in a play that make it feel really dramatic

• The rise and fall of the hero

• the special literary style in which plays are written.

Dialogue

• When two people have a meaningful discussions together

• The words people say

• the conversation between actors on the stage.

• Two monologues

Stage directions

• How to build a stage

• the instructions for the actors and director about what happens while people are talking. 

• How to find the stage

• How to stage a stage

playwright

• the one who writes the scripts for the plays.

• another word for the director

• the person who manages the play in performance

• the stage manager's assistant