ONE ACT PLAY

• Play- a literary form intended be performed on stage before an audience. It is also used to refer the script itself
• A person who writes a play is a playwright
• Elements of a play:

  • Theme
  • Character
  • Plot
  • Dialogue
• Theme - it tells what the play is all about
• Plot - it is the narrative of the play and shows how the story develops
• Character - the actors of actresses playing specific roles in a play
• Dialogue - the conversation between and among characters
• One act play - a play with one act. It deals with single situation and happens in single setting
• Act - the major division in the action of a play
• Actor / actresses - a male or female who performs in a play
• Blocking - the movement of an actor on stage
• character - a personality or role an actor/actress recreates
• climax - the point of greatest tension or transition in a play
• conflict - the problem faced by characters in a play
• position - the orientation of the actors to the audience
• Denouement - the final resolution of conlfict
• Exposition - it is found at the beginning of a play and provides background information
• props - items carried on stage by an actor
• scene - signals change in location or the entrance of a new character.
• stage direction - instruction on how the play is to be acted out.
• volume - the degree of loudness or intensity of a voice