Elements of a Drama

Movable items on stage to be used by the actors.

• script

• props

• sets

• scenes

A type of writing that tells a story and is meant to be performed.

• story

• prose

• drama

• setting

All the furniture and scenery on stage for a play.

• scene

• props

• acts

• sets

A larger section of a play made from several scenes.

• act

• scenes

• script

• props

The text of the entire play

• dialouge

• stage directions

• script

• characters

Explains how actors should say lines or what action should take place on stage.

• script

• dialogue

• stage directions

• sets

The actors (people, animals, or things) in the play

• characters

• setting

• costumes

• scene

Detailed information about what has already taken place before the play begins.

• Setting

• Description

• Scene

• Act

Clothing, hairdos, and accessories worn by the actors

• characters

• dialogue

• costumes

• scene

A smaller section of the play, several of these are grouped into an act

• scene

• characters

• dialouge

• description