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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. A curtain that travels up and down inside a guide; fire curtain track
Fly loft
Offstage
Circuit
Smoke Pocket
2. First rules of safety in theater
Vomitorium
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Center Line
Look - listen - and learn
3. Area above the stage where scenery - drops - and lights are hung when not in use
Fresnel
Fly Space
Tormentors
Lighting Designer
4. A system of rigging and ropes that is used to raise and lower scenery within on stage - operated by hand or mechanically from backstage.
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Production Manager
Apron
Fresnel
5. Scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen
Channels
Masking
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Section View
6. (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
Upstage
olor Elevations
short short - short - center - long - long long
7. Helps to protect the audience from fires that happen on stage - comes in fast and helps to conceal the fire in one place
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Rocker
Fire Curtain
Producer
8. Concierge - takes care of everyone - handles contracts
Locking rail
Vomitorium
Milliner
Company Manager
9. Plug in wall
Circuit
Ground Plan
Upstage
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
10. Fire curtain used to be called this
Look - listen - and learn
Asbestos
Grand Drape
Offstage
11. Pressure
Artistic Director
Voltage
Channels
Two Fer
12. Everything filters through from Artistic Team - knows budget of time - labor - and money; keeps everyone in communication - conductor/diplomat
Rocker
Production Manager
Section View
Rails & Styles
13. The area onstage furthest away from the audience
Head block
Upstage
Platforms
Channels
14. 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
Dimmers
Producer
Grand Drape
15. A performance space in which the audience sits all around the stage; sometimes called in-the-round
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Downstage
Flats
Arena Stage
16. A thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects
Pipe weight
Section View
Gel
Gobo
17. 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.
Voltage
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Asbestos
Fresnel
18. The person in charge backstage; he or she helps the director during rehearsals and then takes charge backstage when the play is performed - also has to deal with performer's behavior
ontinental Seating
Crossover
Cove
Stage Manager
19. 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
Grand Drape
Flats
Lighting Designer
Set Pieces
20. Stage weights that remain on arbor when there are no scenery or lights attached
Pipe weight
Upstage
Gridiron
Rake
21. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Fly Space
short short - short - center - long - long long
Fresnel
Crossover
22. Levels of intensity
Voltage
Director
Dimmers
Proscenium Stage
23. A theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
Flats
Stage Directions
Thrust Stage
Set Pieces
24. Designer that usually determines the color of the show
Company Manager
Rails & Styles
Wings
Scenic Designer
25. (Seating) entering & exiting at extreme ends; Zellerbach Playhouse is like this
Catwalk
Section View
Channels
ontinental Seating
26. Set that's on the ground to stand on; painted
ontinental Seating
Cues
Platforms
Downstage
27. 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.
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Loading Dock
Rocker
Catwalk
28. Metal connectors that holds the fire curtain in the air
Scrim
Front of House (FOH)
Fusible links
Scenic Director
29. 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
Smoke Pocket
Loft Block
Thrust Stage
Scrim
30. 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
Set Pieces
Cues
Platform
31. Any arangment of cloth or other material that curves around the rear of the stage and partiall down the sides usually neutral in color it is often lighted to represent the sky or used as a projection surface
Director
Batten Clamp
Borders
Cyclorama
32. Space above the stage - Space above the stage where scenery may be lifted out of sight by means of ropes and pulleys
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Fly loft
Look - listen - and learn
Set Pieces
33. Best friends with Sound Tech in that both work hand in hand - makes everything work (elec) - wires - hangs - plugs & focuses according to Lighting Designer
Master Electrician/Electrician
Masking
Milliner
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
34. Painted boards that the scenic designer uses to communicate with the scenic artist
olor Elevations
Stage Manager
Grand Drape
Actual vs. Nominal
35. The side areas of the stage - out of view of the audience; the area where the actors wait for their entrances
Wings
Director
Vomitorium
FOH: Front of House
36. Concierge - takes care of everyone - handles contracts
Perspective Scenery
Circuit
Company Manager
Fly loft
37. A performance space in which the audience sits in front of the stage and views as if through a picture frame
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Fly loft
Director
Proscenium Stage
38. Also known as legs - flats or curtains at the extreme right and left of stage
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Tormentors
short short - short - center - long - long long
Ground Plan
39. A platform where pig irons are loaded onto or off of arbors
Vomitorium
olor Elevations
Catwalk
Loading Dock
40. Flat view - floor plan of the stage and set (used to scale) - view of area if room came off
Ground Plan
short short - short - center - long - long long
Offstage
Artistic Director
41. A curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies
Drop
Tormentors
Actual vs. Nominal
TPI
42. Anything and everything in lobby - downstage from proscenium
Overhung
Lighting Designer
Rake
Front of House (FOH)
43. A thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects
Gel
FOH: Front of House
Actual vs. Nominal
Trump Ploy
44. Creates a visual home for the play on stage - setting (color)
Channels
Center Line
FOH: Front of House
Scenic Director
45. The person who finds the financial investors - hires the director and production staff - sets the budget - and pays the bills for a theatrical production
Cyclorama
Producer
Stage Manager
Gobo
46. What kind of pipe batten does Zellerbach use/order?
Circuit
Scenic Director
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
47. Directions from the actor's point of view
Technical Director
SAFETY
Stage Directions
Rake
48. Fire curtain used to be called this
Trump Ploy
Elevation
Ground Plan
Asbestos
49. Painted set on the ground which the actors stand on
Platform
Scenic Director
Master Electrician/Electrician
Overhung
50. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Proscenium Stage
FOH: Front of House
Crossover
Channels