Key Terms Key Terms for analysing a play as a performance text. A play is a series of actions. Instructions as to how to play. A concrete occurrence that takes place on stage in time and space among characters.
Action is two something happenings, one leading to the other .
The second half is your saying, Fine, thank you. One thing leads to the thing immediately next, with no gap between. The connection is the action, distinct from the events. When we name the connection between two events, w e name the action. We mig ht instead suggest to silence, to reprimand, to hurt.