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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.
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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. Large portables pieces of the stage setting
Technical Director
Artistic Director
Set Pieces
Proscenium Stage
2. Scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen
Proscenium Stage
Loading Dock
Masking
Arena Stage
3. Concierge - takes care of everyone - handles contracts
TPI
Company Manager
Drop
Artistic Director
4. (Walls) - Flat pieces of theatrical scenery which are painted and positioned on stage so as to give the appearance of buildings or other background
Flats
Masking
Circuit
Channels
5. Teeth per inch (razors/blades) - fewer for softer wood - more cuts through metal (unforgiving)
Scrim
TPI
Rake
SAFETY
6. According to what do lighting designers arrange their light plots - allowing them to follow a 'map' of the plot
Board of Directors
Fusible links
Channels
Fresnel
7. Steel framework that runs above the stage that is used to support the rigging system
Gridiron
Stand pipe
Head block
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
8. Most effective device for controlling a fire in the theatre - or any building
Sprinkling system
Cues
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Fly loft
9. What kind of pipe batten does Zellerbach use/order?
Channels
Set Pieces
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Platform
10. The person who finds the financial investors - hires the director and production staff - sets the budget - and pays the bills for a theatrical production
Set Pieces
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Producer
Artistic Director
11. The purchase (hand) line runs through the __________ so it can be secured in place.
Technical Director
Locking rail
Front of House (FOH)
ontinental Seating
12. Painted set on the ground which the actors stand on
Ground Plan
Platform
Overhung
Elevation
13. Any incline of audience or stage.
Stage Directions
Locking rail
Rake
Production Manager
14. Levels of intensity
Company Manager
Crossover
Dimmers
Trap room
15. A curtain that travels up and down inside a guide; fire curtain track
Black Box
Overhung
ontinental Seating
Smoke Pocket
16. 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
Scenic Director
Stage Manager
Asbestos
Rails & Styles
17. Stage weights that remain on arbor when there are no scenery or lights attached
Apron
Stage Manager
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Pipe weight
18. Correct order of a 5 line system pipe
Lighting Designer
short short - short - center - long - long long
olor Elevations
Two Fer
19. 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
Producer
Gobo
Board of Directors
Circuit
20. 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
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Director
Channels
21. Scenic term - deceiving the eye: from far away looks real but close it's just tricky talent
Borders
Trump Ploy
Gobo
Section View
22. To use a fire extinguish (acronym)
Borders
Gobo
Apron
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
23. Any incline of audience or stage.
Gobo
Rake
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Pit
24. A platform where pig irons are loaded onto or off of arbors
Scrim
Channels
Loading Dock
Artistic Director
25. Six steps to hang a light (fresnel or ellipsoidals)
Center Line
Loft Block
Loft Block
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
26. What is anything downstage from the plaster line in a proscenium house?
Elevation
Section View
FOH: Front of House
Fresnel
27. A metal cutout that is placed in front of the lens of a lighting instrument to create different shadowed images on stage
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Thrust Stage
Gobo
28. Main wheel at the top of the counterweight arbor system
Head block
Catwalk
Source 4 ERS
Elevation
29. Front part or area of the stage extending past the main act curtain; also called lip
Apron
Batten Clamp
Tormentors
Borders
30. 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
Stage Directions
Trump Ploy
Drop
Loft Block
31. Six steps to hang a light (fresnel or ellipsoidals)
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Stage Directions
Plaster Line
Dramaturg
32. Levels of intensity
Batten Clamp
Dimmers
Center Line
Fresnel
33. The side areas of the stage - out of view of the audience; the area where the actors wait for their entrances
Wings
Rails & Styles
Master Electrician/Electrician
Ground Plan
34. Also called the main drape - the grand curtain - or the main rag; the one that has to open for the show to start
Wings
Stage Manager
Grand Drape
Vomitorium
35. Everything hands on - the person who figures out how the set will be built and then oversees construction - works closest with Scenic Director
SAFETY
Ground Plan
Technical Director
Trap room
36. 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
Cyclorama
Offstage
Batten Clamp
Ground Plan
37. Made of channels - A visual or aural signal that indicates the beginning of an action - line of dialogue - or piece of music
Channels
Actual vs. Nominal
Cues
Platform
38. One that makes - trims - designs hats; also sometimes handles accessories
Board of Directors
Milliner
Center Line
Smoke Pocket
39. Underneath the stage where things are stored (like ERS' or Fresnels and seats)
Drapery
Trap room
Channels
Cove
40. Teeth per inch (razors/blades) - fewer for softer wood - more cuts through metal (unforgiving)
Fly loft
Overhung
Master Electrician/Electrician
TPI
41. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Source 4 ERS
Loft Block
Perspective Scenery
Gussets
42. A hose connection for a fire hose
Tormentors
Look - listen - and learn
Section View
Stand pipe
43. Best friends with Sound Tech in that both work hand in hand - makes everything work (elec) - wires - hangs - plugs & focuses according to Lighting Designer
Set Pieces
Master Electrician/Electrician
Offstage
Pit
44. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Downstage
Loft Block
Crossover
Gobo
45. A performance space in which the audience sits all around the stage; sometimes called in-the-round
Arena Stage
Proscenium Stage
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Rocker
46. 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.
Dramaturg
Black Box
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Actual vs. Nominal
47. The area onstage furthest away from the audience
Ground Plan
Gussets
Cove
Upstage
48. Anything and everything in lobby - downstage from proscenium
Front of House (FOH)
Asbestos
Trap room
Catwalk
49. Flat view of area if cut or sliced - like a dissection and see inner workings of multiple levels
Director
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Section View
Ground Plan
50. Orchestra pit where the band plays
Pit
Channels
Loading Dock
Elevation