playscript
Drama in writing
A playscript is the written text of a play, containing dialogue, stage directions, and scene descriptions.
The term emphasizes the document as a working script for performance rather than literature for reading: The actors received their playscripts at the first rehearsal.
Also written as two words: play script.
Live theatrical production
- one-actSingle-segment theatrical format
- full-lengthExtending the entire distance
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
- originalFirst or inventive
revival · musical · tragedy · comedy · farce · melodrama · docudrama
Spoken exchange between parties
- linesStrokes connecting two points
- sceneDramatic unit or locale
- actDeed or performance
- stage directionsInstructions within a script
cue · prompt · copy · draft · revision · reading · table read · sides
Pre-performance practice session
- blockingImpeding forward progress
- stagingPreparing for presentation
- directorOne who leads
- castPerformers, throw, or splint
actor · performance · costume · props · set · lighting · cue · prompter
Strokes connecting two points
- monologueUninterrupted solo address
- soliloquyDramatic speech to oneself
- exchangeMutual giving and receiving
- speechOral communication ability
aside · repartee · banter · cue · delivery · utterance · declamation · recitation
Storyline or land parcel
- storylineSequence of fictional events
- arcCurved line segment
- expositionSystematic explanatory presentation
- climaxPoint of greatest intensity
denouement · conflict · resolution · protagonist · antagonist · characterization · theme · setting
stageplay
Live theatrical production
- one-actSingle-segment theatrical format
- full-lengthExtending the entire distance
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
original · revival · musical · tragedy · comedy · farce · melodrama · docudrama
dialogue
Spoken exchange between parties
stage directions · cue · prompt · copy · draft · revision · reading · table read · sides · libretto
rehearsal
Pre-performance practice session
cast · actor · performance · costume · props · set · lighting · cue · prompter · understudy
lines
Strokes connecting two points
- monologueUninterrupted solo address
- soliloquyDramatic speech to oneself
- exchangeMutual giving and receiving
speech · aside · repartee · banter · cue · delivery · utterance · declamation · recitation · voiceover
plot
Storyline or land parcel
- storylineSequence of fictional events
- arcCurved line segment
- expositionSystematic explanatory presentation
climax · denouement · conflict · resolution · protagonist · antagonist · characterization · theme · setting · backstory
- theater materialsplaybill, theater program, program, concert program, festival program
- scriptsalphabet, Latin alphabet, Roman alphabet, Greek alphabet, Hebrew alphabet
playscriptnovel
New and unusual
prose fiction · narrative prose · essay · epic poem · short story
playscriptperformance
Carrying out a task
live performance · improvisation · theatrical production · enactment · stage performance
play, script, manuscript, playwright, subscription, postscript, scripture, screenplay, scripted