Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Plays
Plays
Title
It’s the name of the play.
Playwright
It’s the author of the play.
Characters
They are different people that take part in the story.
Cast
The actors and actresses in a play.
Setting
It tells the time and place where the play happens in.
Stage directions
They tell actors/actresses what to do and where to go on stage, how to move and how to say their dialogues.
Dialogues
They are the lines the characters speak in the play.
Taking on a role requires performers to accept
the physicality, attitudes and beliefs of the
characters they are playing
Consider the characters background,
motivations and point of view
Characters
Consider how the character moves, and how
they might sound