Drama and Theater Vocabulary

A person who performs in a play, movie or television program.

• Actor

• Director

• Writer

• Producer

Action of the play.

• plot

• character

• setting

• theme

The written form of a play.

• script

• stage

• actor

• scene

A group of two or more scenes that make up major divisions in a play.

• Act

• Scene

• Line

• Verse

A script for a movie, including descriptions of scenes and some camera directions.

• screenplay

• novel

• poem

• blueprint

Smaller divisions of an act usually happening in a particular place and time.

• Scene

• Act

• Chapter

• Episode

A group of actors who speak together with one voice commenting on the main action of a play.

• Chorus

• Ensemble

• Director

• Soloist

A list that tells who is in the play; sometimes describes the character.

• Cast

• Script

• Stage

• Director

A play that is funny and has a happy ending.

• Comedy

• Tragedy

• Farce

• Melodrama

A struggle between opposing forces/characters. ________

• Conflict

• Setting

• Theme

• Resolution