stage scripts
Written dramatic works
Stage scripts are the written texts of plays, containing dialogue, stage directions, and technical cues for theatrical performance.
Unlike screenplays, stage scripts assume a live audience and leave considerable interpretive freedom to directors and actors.
The term emphasizes the document's function as a working blueprint for production rather than literature for reading.
- annotationsExplanatory additions to documents
- dramaturgTheater's textual specialist
- dialogueSpoken exchange between parties
- dramatic arcPlot's rising-falling pattern
- playwrightAuthor of stage dramas
director · prologue · actor · costume designer · prop master · sides · sound engineer · choreographer · regional theater · libretto · blocking · fourth wall · table read · line reading · epilogue · rehearsal · dress rehearsal · opening night
stage scriptsscreenplays
Written works for films
teleplays · film scripts · radio scripts · novels · television scripts
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