Understanding Scripts and Stage Directions

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What is drama?

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A story that is written to be performed or acted out.

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What are instructions that tell the actors what to do?

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Stage Directions.

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What is a list that includes the characters, or parts, that will be in the play?

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Cast of Characters.

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What is the moral lesson or central message of the play?

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Theme.

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What is the sequence of events in a play?

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Plot.

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What is the written text of a play called?

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Script.

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What do you call the person who tells the story in a play?

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Narrator.

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What are the words spoken by the characters in a play?

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Dialogue.

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What is the setting of a play?

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The time and place where the story occurs.

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What is the purpose of stage directions?

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To guide actors on how to move and speak.