Blocking
Proper actor placement
Antagonist
Bad guy
Center Stage
Middle of stage
Upstage
Farthest point away from audience
Downstage
Area of stage closest to audience
Stage Left
Left side of stage from actor perspective
Stage right
Right side of stage from actor perspective
Plot
What the play is about
Protagonist
Good guy
Inciting incident
Thing that get play going
Rising action
Build up of action
Climax
Everything’s culminates
Denouement
Wrapping things up, finishing the story
Comedy - Tragedy
Comedy - funny story
Tragedy - usually everyone dies, complete tragedy
Plot
The point of the story
Drama
Basic story telling
Melodrama
Good guy always wins
Kabuki
Japanese play, all make performers
Climax
Culmination of story