The elements of drama include: plot, characters, setting, description, dialogue,
stage directions and theme.
Setting
Princess & The Pea
Characters
CAST: Narrator, Queen, King, Prince, Princess, Spectator, Jester, Tooth Fairy
Description
Setting: Museum
The story begins in a very large museum in a very famous town where there is a peculiar
exhibit on display. A pea. Yes, that’s right. A pea. A lone pea sits in a case of glass. What is
this pea’s significance?
Spectator: What?
Narrator: Who was affected by this pea?
Spectator: Who?
Narrator: How did this pea come to be here?
Spectator: How?
Dialogue
Narrator: Shush!
Spectator: Ooooh!
Narrator: I will tell you. It began on a dark and stormy night . . .with a prince. Now, not just any
prince, this prince wanted more than anything to marry a princess, but she had to be a real
princess. What was more, his mother, the queen, had put it into his head that no one was
good enough for her son.
Prince: That’s right. I don’t want any shenanigans. I want the real deal! A qualified, a bona
fide, a ratified real princess.
Narrator: So he travelled all over the world to find one, but wherever he went there was
always something wrong, with the help of his mother.
Queen: (seemingly bored) She is too young … too old … too fat … too thin … lacks culture … is
too culture
Stage Direction
Plot
Theme
What happens in the drama/storyline.
The author’s message or the lesson that can be learned from the story.