ABSTRACT
A play-script is a written copy of the dialogue performed by the actors in a play. This chapter discusses how a play-script contains a list of the characters in the play and details of the setting where each scene takes place, in addition to the dialogue between the characters and any important moves that the actors make. It also talks about how people speak, when they often use contractions. For example, in the extract from The Broken Vase on Activity sheet Sophie says 'I'm trying to read' instead of 'I am trying to read' and 'It's annoying' instead of 'It is annoying'. There are opportunities in many areas of the curriculum for improvising scenes as play-scripts. For example, the pupil can develop a scene in which two children who have seen a Viking warship land on a beach in north-east England tell the people in their village what they have seen and the villagers discuss what to do.
