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Elements of a Script & People in Theatre

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show Apart from being what actors do on stage, the term also denotes a division in the performance of a play. Each act may have several scenes. Nowadays fulllength plays typically have two or three acts. Often there is an intermission between the acts.  
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Antagonist   show
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show This term describes a play that is light in tone and designed to amuse. The ancient Greeks are credited with inventing comedies as a way to comment satirically on domestic situation  
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Denouement   show
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show Conversation in a play  
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show The part of a play that fills in things that have already happened so you can make sense of who's who and why they're doing whatever. Sometimes narrators to do this by addressing the audience directly. Other times it is woven into the opening dialogue.  
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show A lengthy speech by a single character delivered to other characters in a play; not to be confused with a soliloquy  
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show The character who generates the main action of the story.  
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Soliloquy   show
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Shakespeare   show
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show A performer in a play.  
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Actress   show
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Artistic Director   show
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show This person is the artistic director of The Laguna Playhouse.  
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Cast   show
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show The team of theatre workers—often the unsung heroes—who take care of the physical aspects of a production at each performance.  
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Designer   show
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show The person responsible for interpreting and bringing the text of a play to life on stage. Also manages the overall artistic unity of the production  
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Grip   show
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show Runs the business and general nonartistic operations of a nonprofit theatre. Also has some of the duties provided by a producer in commercial theatre since he or she is in charge raising the money to make the artistic director's vision come to fruition.  
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show This person is the executive director at The Laguna Playhouse.  
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show In its ordinary sense this refers to a group of musicians but the term is also used in the theatre to refer to the seating area immediately behind the orchestra pit—even when there is no pit!  
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"the Stalls"   show
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Playwright   show
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show This very important person gives instructions or “calls” for just about everything that happens on stage. They make sure a production continues to be performed the way the director wants since the director leaves soon after the show opens.  
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