Drama
Across
- 3. The written text of a play
- 4. The physical environment on stage where a play takes place
- 5. The group of people a play is performed for
- 7. A major division of a play
- 10. A large piece of cloth, often painted or printed, that is hung at the back of the stage to create a visual background for a performance
- 11. Irony When the audience knows something that a character does not
- 12. A conversation between two characters
- 13. The most famous playwright
- 14. A monologue where characters share their thoughts with the audience
- 15. What you do at the end of a play
- 17. A long speech to the audience or another character on stage
- 19. A signal prompting an event in a performance
- 20. You pay for this to gain entry
- 21. A group of musicians, dancers, or actors who perform together
Down
- 1. A person who performs in plays
- 2. A person who writes plays
- 3. An instruction in the text of a play indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting
- 6. What actors wear on stage to become their character
- 8. The use of closeness or distance between characters to make a point
- 9. A division of an act, like chapters in a play
- 10. The precise movement and positioning of actors on stage
- 13. A raised platform where a play is performed
- 16. When a character speaks to the audience and the other characters do not hear
- 17. Standing in front of actors, obscuring them from the audience
- 18. The country where theatre began
- 19. A genre of plays designed to make the audience laugh