Stage Directions and Vocabulary

Conversation between characters

• Dialogue

• Props

• Play

• Drama

A signal, either verbal or physical, that indicates something should happen

• Upstage

• Costume

• Stage Directions

• Cue

All the characters (actors) in a play

• Theme

• Narrator

• Cast

• Playwright

A person who writes plays

• Playwright

• Script

• Narrator

• Dialogue

A short story acted out live, using dialogue and action

• Scenes

• Drama

• Plot

• Props

Acts are divided into parts, which are called ...

• Cue

• Play

• Scenes

• Downstage

The written form of the play

• Script

• Downstage

• Cue

• Theme

The part of the stage furthest away from the audience

• Upstage

• Downstage

Clothing worn by an actor on stage during a performance

• Props

• Dialogue

• Costume

• Stage Directions

The person telling the story in a play

• Actors

• Playwright

• Characters

• Narrator