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Stagecraft Basics
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Subject
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Pressure
Rails & Styles
Voltage
Crossover
Fire Curtain
2. Grainer
Actual vs. Nominal
Source 4 ERS
Cove
Rocker
3. The side areas of the stage - out of view of the audience; the area where the actors wait for their entrances
Stage Directions
Rails & Styles
Two Fer
Wings
4. Any incline of audience or stage.
Source 4 ERS
Plaster Line
Rake
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
5. Designer that usually determines the color of the show
Scenic Designer
Asbestos
Ground Plan
Cyclorama
6. Hanging cloth used as a blind - especially for a window
TPI
Drapery
Channels
Smoke Pocket
7. (Walls) - Flat pieces of theatrical scenery which are painted and positioned on stage so as to give the appearance of buildings or other background
Scenic Designer
Actual vs. Nominal
Flats
Gel
8. Large portables pieces of the stage setting
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Set Pieces
Actual vs. Nominal
Arena Stage
9. Orchestra pit where the band plays
olor Elevations
Pit
Look - listen - and learn
Technical Director
10. Also known as teasers - hung over head of the stage main use is to mask any equpiment usually fixtures you dont want audience to see
Borders
Batten Clamp
Flats
ontinental Seating
11. Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
Channels
Head block
Director
Dramaturg
12. Type of performance space that is small - created out of a room - painted all black; the scenery can be arranged in any way inside the box
Black Box
Fusible links
Asbestos
Gel
13. Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
Director
FOH: Front of House
Smoke Pocket
Set Pieces
14. Mounted to the gridiron or support steel that supports and changes the direction of a lift line rope between the load and the head block
Platforms
Loft Block
Sprinkling system
Fusible links
15. In the theatre - the person who decides where the lighting instruments should go - how they should be colored - and which ones should be on at any particular time
Lighting Designer
Vomitorium
olor Elevations
Catwalk
16. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Perspective Scenery
Loft Block
Asbestos
Crossover
17. Lighting instrument whose name refers to the etched or contoured glass lens
Scenic Director
Tormentors
Loading Dock
Fresnel
18. (sizes of wood) 2 x 4 (nominal) > first milled - then changes because of shaving ... actual is 1.5 x 3.5 - for this class know 2x4 - 1x3 - 4x4... within that range
Actual vs. Nominal
Smoke Pocket
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
19. (Framing) - Rails (shorter) always caps a style (long)
Flats
Rails & Styles
Scenic Director
Locking rail
20. A lighting instrument characterized by hard-edged light with little diffusion; designed for long throws - it is manufactured with fixed and variable focal length lenses; the light beam is shaped with internally mounted shutters.
Two Fer
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Arena Stage
Loft Block
21. A performance space in which the audience sits all around the stage; sometimes called in-the-round
Arena Stage
Catwalk
Scrim
Fly loft
22. A performance space in which the audience sits all around the stage; sometimes called in-the-round
Tormentors
Arena Stage
Ground Plan
Thrust Stage
23. Grainer
Rocker
Overhung
Trump Ploy
Dimmers
24. A curtain or drop made of gauze-like fabric; when lighted from the front - it is opaque - but is transparent if lighted from the back; a firm open-weave fabric used for a curtain in the theater
Scrim
Stage Manager
Technical Director
Stage Manager
25. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Cove
Source 4 ERS
Two Fer
Set Pieces
26. Figures out place - theme of season and has final say
Asbestos
Artistic Director
Thrust Stage
Stand pipe
27. Any incline of audience or stage.
Rake
Two Fer
Gridiron
Producer
28. Main wheel at the top of the counterweight arbor system
Flats
Thrust Stage
Artistic Director
Head block
29. What type of stage is Zellerbach playhouse?
Director
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Proscenium Stage
Actual vs. Nominal
30. Metal connectors that holds the fire curtain in the air
Fusible links
Trump Ploy
Perspective Scenery
Section View
31. Designer that usually determines the color of the show
Scenic Designer
Look - listen - and learn
Stand pipe
Artistic Director
32. Helps to protect the audience from fires that happen on stage - comes in fast and helps to conceal the fire in one place
Black Box
Fire Curtain
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Drop
33. Made of channels - A visual or aural signal that indicates the beginning of an action - line of dialogue - or piece of music
Black Box
Cues
Look - listen - and learn
short short - short - center - long - long long
34. Imaginary line from one side of the proscenium opening tot he other - divides apron from the stage floor.
Overhung
Plaster Line
Cues
Offstage
35. To use a fire extinguish (acronym)
Gridiron
Sprinkling system
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Circuit
36. A theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
Thrust Stage
Locking rail
Director
Perspective Scenery
37. Also called the main drape - the grand curtain - or the main rag; the one that has to open for the show to start
Look - listen - and learn
olor Elevations
Apron
Grand Drape
38. Creates a visual home for the play on stage - setting (color)
Apron
Scenic Director
Offstage
Actual vs. Nominal
39. The person who finds the financial investors - hires the director and production staff - sets the budget - and pays the bills for a theatrical production
FOH: Front of House
Drop
Producer
Grand Drape
40. Plug in wall
Milliner
Loading Dock
Flats
Circuit
41. Stage weights that remain on arbor when there are no scenery or lights attached
Company Manager
Pipe weight
Board of Directors
Flats
42. (sizes of wood) 2 x 4 (nominal) > first milled - then changes because of shaving ... actual is 1.5 x 3.5 - for this class know 2x4 - 1x3 - 4x4... within that range
Actual vs. Nominal
Artistic Director
Scrim
Fresnel
43. Directions from the actor's point of view
Rocker
Stage Directions
Rails & Styles
Overhung
44. Also known as legs - flats or curtains at the extreme right and left of stage
Section View
Rake
Drop
Tormentors
45. Painted set on the ground which the actors stand on
Upstage
Scrim
Downstage
Platform
46. Scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen
Stand pipe
Cues
Masking
Fly loft
47. Fire curtain used to be called this
Proscenium Stage
Fire Curtain
Asbestos
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
48. What kind of pipe batten does Zellerbach use/order?
Fly loft
Platform
Dramaturg
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
49. Makes shoes
Drop
Channels
Stand pipe
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
50. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Crossover
Master Electrician/Electrician
Channels
Section View