Drama Glossary
Key theatre terms and definitions including related shows.
A piece of physical action by actors on stage that communicates social meaning.
An enclosed and segregated district, often run-down and overcrowded, used to restrict a minority group.
Contributions to the ensemble that encourage problem-solving.
A period of rapid economic growth in America during the last thirty years of the nineteenth century.
The information provided by the playwright about the character and situation.
A London playhouse built in 1599 by the Lord Chamberlain's Men, Shakespeare's playing company.
An Irish term meaning "forever".
The thing that a play’s character needs or wants to achieve. It can be something physical, like money, or something more abstract, like acceptance or happiness.
Metal or glass stencils that can be inserted into lights to create patterns. Gobo refers to where it is inserted into the light - GOes Before Optics (between the lamp and the lens).
Meaning "God's body," used as an exclamation of frustration or anger
References an era of book musicals written roughly between the 1940s and the 1960s.
A Broadway musical written and produced between 1943 and 1965.