Lesson 6

Stage Acts: Special Dramatic Forms

Monologue, Aside,
Soliloquy
Monologue
• A long speech
by a character
on stage with
other
characters
listening.
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Aside
• A speech spoken by
a character to the
audience that the
other characters on
stage DO NOT HEAR.
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Soliloquy
A long speech by a lone character
on stage with no other characters
listening.
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6.2 Pantomime
Pantomime
• A specific type of
entertainment
where people
make elaborate
gestures without
words to express
themselves
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Tableu
- A dramatic or still
picture.
- The theatrical
technique in which
actors freeze in poses
that create a picture
of one important
moment in the play.
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Puppetry

• A form of theatre or
performance that involves
the manipulation of
puppets – inanimate
objects, often resembling
some type of human or
animal figure, that are
animated or manipulated
by a human called a
puppeteer. The script for a
puppet production is called
a puppet play.
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Clowning
A performance that employs
slapstick or similar types of physical
comedy, often in a mime style.
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Street Theatre
• A form of theatrical performance
and presentation in outdoor public
spaces without a specific paying
audience.
• The actors who perform street
theatre range from buskers to
organized theatre companies or
groups that want to experiment.
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 Duet Acting
• A type of play that
predominantly employs
dialogue delivered
through duet or singing
between two characters.
NOTE: Duet acting is
common in musical plays
such as Les Misérables,
Phantom of the Opera,
Hamilton Musical, Miss
Saigon, and the like.
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MULTIMEDIA
DRAMA
• A digitalized drama such as
those broadcasted in the
television or musical plays
distributed through cinemas
worldwide.
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MUSICAL
THEATRE
A form of theatrical performance
that combines songs, spoken
dialogue, acting and dance.
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SCRIPTWRITING
Lesson 7.3
SCRIPT

• A piece of writing that

consists dialogue, stage
directions, and instructions
to actors and directors.
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SCREENPLAY

• A written work by
screenwriters for a film.
These screenplays can be
original works or
adaptations from existing
pieces of writing. In them,
the movement, actions,
expressions, and dialogues
of the characters are also
narrated.
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TELEPLAY
• A written work for
television programs and
television dramas.
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ACT vs. SCENE
Act

• An act is a division or unit of a

theatre work – play, film, opera,
and musical theater. A part of a
play defined by elements such as
rising action, climax, and
resolution.
Scene
•A scene normally
represents actions
happening in one place
at one time and is
marked off from the next
scene by a curtain, a
black-out, or a brief
emptying of the stage.
• Act and scene should be labeled to achieve proper script writing
format. Acts should be designated using roman numerals (II, IV, VI,
IX), while scenes should be labeled with Arabic numbering (1, 3, 5, 7).

For example, the seventh scene in your play should be Act VII, Scene 5.