play script
Dialogue for actors
A play script is the written text of a dramatic work, containing dialogue, stage directions, and scene descriptions that actors and directors use to produce a theatrical performance.
The term distinguishes the document itself from the performed play: She's been revising her play script for months.
- rehearsalPre-performance practice session
- dress rehearsalComplete practice performance
- actDeed or performance
- final actConcluding portion of drama
- monologueUninterrupted solo address
dialogue · dramatic reading · dramaturgy · blocking · stage directions · stage left · director · playwright · absurdist theater · table read · cold reading · stage · scene · casting · line · scriptwriting · Shakespearean plays · tragedy
- written worksessay, novel, anthologies, history books, letter
- dialogueconversation, line, lines, banter, talk
- student writingbook report, student essays, college essay, personal narrative, persuasive essay
play scriptimprovisation
Spontaneous, unplanned creation
improv · ad-lib · extemporization · improvised comedy · freestyle
play scriptnovel
New and unusual
prose fiction · narrative prose · essay · short story · poem