rules that are followed by playwrights to write play scripts that are clear and easy to follow

the ways an actor uses their body, voice and facial expressions to bring a character to life in a play

a brief description of where and when the action takes place at the beginning of a scene in a play

Reading and performing a script based on 'The Iron Man'

English

In this unit, pupils read, engage with, analyse and act from play scripts for the first time. They learn about conventions of scripts, they learn about directors and actors' roles within a cast and they learn to improvise at the end of the unit. Pupils also build their performance and oracy skills. 

Reading and performing scripts

Which of these would be a suitable **stage direction**?

Setting: Early morning on a farm near the hill. Hogarth, a boy, spots something.

Which of these is a **setting description** from a play script?

True or false? Setting descriptions are only useful for creating a setting in a story.

people who act and say the lines as the characters

Which of these are people who work as part of a **stage crew**?

Who gets the final say on how a scene should look: the director, the actors or the stage crew?

Fill in the gap in the following sentence: 'When a director first reads a script, they should look at the __________ of each scene to help create a vision for how each scene should look.'

Fill in the gap in the following sentence: 'Actors, a __________ and a stage crew are involved in preparing a play for a performance.'

Fill in the gap in the following sentence: 'The **title** of a play is the __________ of a play.'

a short chunk or section of a play, like a chapter in a book

something a character has seen in the play

Which of these is the best definition of **dialogue**?

Fill in the gap in the following sentence: 'Stage directions are like __________ for actors to follow for how to speak or move in that part of the play.'

getting feedback about what could be improved

Put these steps for preparing a play for a performance in the correct order.

Starter Quiz