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music and the choreographic structures of the performance are interdependent and fully integrated. CONVENTIONS OF SPEECH The practice in the traditional theatre is guided by a set of conventions and the nature of stylisation. These conventions and the scheme of stylisation are determined by the staging conditions of the plays and dramatic values of the traditional theatre. There is a whole set of conventions determining the nature and the delivery of dramatic speech. Repetition, superimposition, simultaneous speaking and alternation of the speech between the character and the chorus are some of the devices of the speech delivery. The alternation between the singing of the chorus and the actor-dancer singing his lines or presenting a drama sequence is recitation, mime and dancing. There is the alternation of the prose and the verse dialogues and sometimes more than one language is used in dramatic dialogues. There are impromptu prose-dialogues having the nature of the secondary spoken word, elaborating the content of the song dialogues. The dialogues are often treated as comments and spoken or sung by a chorus. There are soliloquies, semi-soliloquies, and monologues. The speech treated through many conventions and presented as chanting, singing and rhythmic prose extends the range of the theatre and lives beyond the words. In the scheme of dramatic speech the use of chorus in most of the forms of Tamasa and Terukkuttu and the temple-based forms, like 10