Narrator
Cast of Characters
Dialogue
Drama
Act
Character Tags
Scene
Script
Setting
Stage Directions
A play is a story that is designed to be performed by actors.
A written text in a play.
The words that are being said by characters.
All of the characters and their brief description of their physical characteristics.
The time and place the play is taking place.
The person who is telling the story during the play.
A chapter in a play that contains more than one scene.
The action that takes place in a single setting.
Written instructions that tell the actors what to do in the scene.
Labels before the lines of the dialogue to show which character is speaking.

This is an example of a
"Speaks with authority. He is lying on the concrete," is an example of stage directions because it's telling the character what to do and how to say it.
The setting of the story is in
According to the character tags, the first character to speak is
is characterized as a childhood friend who was killed by an officer.
is characterized as a 16-year-old, daughter to Maverick, and attends a predominantly white private school but lives in a poor black neighborhood.
The play begins in