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| Play | A story of a problem or struggle told by actors to an audience |
| Act | A major division of a long play. Each act may have several scenes |
| Actor | Person who plays the part of a character |
| Character | Person in the story of the play. |
| Playwright | The writer of the play. |
| Script | The written form of the play. |
| Dialogue | Words spoken by the characters in the play. |
| Stage directions | Instructions to the actors written in the script, usually in parentheses or italics. |
| Director | Person in charge of the entire play production. |
| Cast | Complete list of actors who will play the parts, plus the people who work backstage. |
| Props | moveable objects used onstage by the actors. |
| Scenery/Set | The way the stage is decorated |
| Setting | The time and place of the story of the play. |
| Sound effects | Sounds produced offstage to fit with the action onstage. |
| Tragedy | A play that presents serious and important actions that end unhappily for the main character |
| Comedy | A play that ends happily in which the main character gets what he or she wants |
| Dialogue | conversations between characters in a play |
| Monologue | a long speech made by one character other characters |
| Soliloquy | a speech made by a character who is alone onstage speaking to himself/herself |
| Aside | A character's remark to the audience or that others on stage don't hear |
