Playwriting Concepts Units #1 & #2

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Across
  1. 2. a dramatic speech given by one character
  2. 5. the group of people who watch the play.
  3. 7. a conversation between two or more characters
  4. 11. a person portrayed in a play (who the actor pretends to be)
  5. 12. a type of staging in which the audience sits on two sides of the stage facing one another.
  6. 13. the way in which something is arranged or set out, like the structure of a play (title, character list, setting, at rise, etc.)
  7. 14. the time and place in which the action of a play occurs.
Down
  1. 1. something used for inspiration to write a play such as a title, opening line, object, music, etc.
  2. 3. the second step in the writing process used to organize a writer's ideas before a draft.
  3. 4. the first stage of the writing process when a writer thinks of ideas for a play.
  4. 6. the person who writes a play
  5. 8. a stage constructed so that an audience can sit on all four sides.
  6. 9. the type or kind of play style (comedy, tragedy, melodrama, etc.)
  7. 10. a dramatic work characterized by fanciful or supernatural elements.