4th Grade Drama Vocabulary

a performance of a play in front of an audience

• production

• rehearsal

• audition

• script

acts are divided into these, a small section

• acts

• scenes

• chapters

• segments

the background and scenery in the play

• set

• scene

• stage

• backdrop

the person who writes the play

• director

• actor

• playwright

• producer

group of actors selected to act in a play

• cast

• crew

• ensemble

• troupe

the main character in a play

• antagonist

• protagonist

• supporting character

• narrator

the time and place in which the play occurs

• setting

• plot

• theme

• character

the character who opposes the main character

• protagonist

• antagonist

• supporting character

• narrator

the overall message or lesson of the play

• theme

• plot

• character

• setting

stories that are meant to be acted out for an audience

• comedy

• drama

• novel

• poetry