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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. Figures out place - theme of season and has final say
Flats
Artistic Director
Platform
Masking
2. Also known as legs - flats or curtains at the extreme right and left of stage
Tormentors
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Gel
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
3. A passage situated below or behind a tier of seats in an amphitheatre - through which crowds can 'spew out' at the end of a performance.
Gobo
Gel
Scenic Director
Vomitorium
4. Steel framework that runs above the stage that is used to support the rigging system
Technical Director
Pit
Sprinkling system
Gridiron
5. Scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen
Masking
Scenic Director
Producer
Artistic Director
6. (Framing) - Rails (shorter) always caps a style (long)
Rails & Styles
Stage Directions
Offstage
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
7. Area above the stage where scenery - drops - and lights are hung when not in use
Set Pieces
Wings
Scenic Designer
Fly Space
8. One that makes - trims - designs hats; also sometimes handles accessories
Gel
Milliner
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Fly loft
9. Pressure
Wings
Voltage
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Company Manager
10. Six steps to hang a light (fresnel or ellipsoidals)
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Ground Plan
Locking rail
Drapery
11. Metal connectors that holds the fire curtain in the air
Section View
Stand pipe
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Fusible links
12. Hanging cloth used as a blind - especially for a window
Pipe weight
Center Line
Drapery
Platforms
13. A performance space in which the audience sits all around the stage; sometimes called in-the-round
Arena Stage
Loft Block
Rocker
Source 4 ERS
14. Also called the main drape - the grand curtain - or the main rag; the one that has to open for the show to start
Rake
Grand Drape
Locking rail
Plaster Line
15. Makes shoes
Rocker
Circuit
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Platforms
16. To use a fire extinguish (acronym)
Fly loft
Fresnel
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Cyclorama
17. A thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects
Black Box
SAFETY
Channels
Gel
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
Gel
Stage Manager
Two Fer
Catwalk
19. Directions from the actor's point of view
Stage Directions
Cues
Channels
Offstage
20. A platform where pig irons are loaded onto or off of arbors
Milliner
short short - short - center - long - long long
Loading Dock
Rake
21. A metal cutout that is placed in front of the lens of a lighting instrument to create different shadowed images on stage
Masking
Gobo
Loading Dock
Stage Manager
22. First rules of safety in theater
Vomitorium
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Look - listen - and learn
Artistic Director
23. Hire and fire Managing Director and Artistic Director - these are patrons w/ money & connections - in the upper echelons of authority and want to help theater but doesn't necessarily know how
Source 4 ERS
Board of Directors
Rails & Styles
Arena Stage
24. The part of the stage closest to the audience
Downstage
Grand Drape
short short - short - center - long - long long
Wings
25. A theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
SAFETY
Perspective Scenery
Downstage
Thrust Stage
26. Two instruments - same circuit
Ground Plan
Tormentors
Actual vs. Nominal
Two Fer
27. Made up of dimmers - map of plot
short short - short - center - long - long long
Channels
Fly loft
Scrim
28. Flat view of area if cut or sliced - like a dissection and see inner workings of multiple levels
SAFETY
Board of Directors
Scenic Director
Section View
29. Best friends with Sound Tech in that both work hand in hand - makes everything work (elec) - wires - hangs - plugs & focuses according to Lighting Designer
Sprinkling system
Master Electrician/Electrician
Center Line
Sprinkling system
30. (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
short short - short - center - long - long long
Actual vs. Nominal
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Rocker
31. 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
Borders
Director
Black Box
Batten Clamp
32. The person who finds the financial investors - hires the director and production staff - sets the budget - and pays the bills for a theatrical production
Gobo
Wings
Section View
Producer
33. An imaginary line running from the front to the back of the stage through the exact center of the proscenium arch
Center Line
Black Box
Head block
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
34. Six steps to hang a light (fresnel or ellipsoidals)
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Director
Director
Dramaturg
35. Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
Director
Producer
Trap room
Fly loft
36. 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
Two Fer
Borders
Lighting Designer
Artistic Director
37. The side areas of the stage - out of view of the audience; the area where the actors wait for their entrances
Black Box
Company Manager
Wings
Board of Directors
38. Anything and everything in lobby - downstage from proscenium
Fresnel
Rails & Styles
Stage Directions
Front of House (FOH)
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
Producer
Loft Block
SAFETY
Two Fer
40. Made of channels - A visual or aural signal that indicates the beginning of an action - line of dialogue - or piece of music
Tormentors
olor Elevations
Cues
Catwalk
41. What is anything downstage from the plaster line in a proscenium house?
FOH: Front of House
Offstage
Fly loft
Catwalk
42. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Crossover
Technical Director
Channels
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
43. Painted boards that the scenic designer uses to communicate with the scenic artist
olor Elevations
Loading Dock
FOH: Front of House
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
44. (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
TPI
Stage Directions
ontinental Seating
45. 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
Stage Manager
Scrim
Cues
Gobo
46. Flat view - floor plan of the stage and set (used to scale) - view of area if room came off
Ground Plan
Loft Block
Black Box
Elevation
47. Main wheel at the top of the counterweight arbor system
Head block
Ground Plan
Company Manager
Platform
48. A passage situated below or behind a tier of seats in an amphitheatre - through which crowds can 'spew out' at the end of a performance.
Stage Manager
Ground Plan
Black Box
Vomitorium
49. Loft blocks in Zellerbach Playhouse are __________ for easier access and movement
Channels
Overhung
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Channels
50. Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
Arena Stage
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Director
Company Manager