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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. The side areas of the stage - out of view of the audience; the area where the actors wait for their entrances
Fresnel
Wings
Channels
Gobo
2. Teeth per inch (razors/blades) - fewer for softer wood - more cuts through metal (unforgiving)
Board of Directors
Scenic Director
TPI
Upstage
3. The area onstage furthest away from the audience
Elevation
Stage Manager
Scenic Director
Upstage
4. Helps to protect the audience from fires that happen on stage - comes in fast and helps to conceal the fire in one place
Fire Curtain
Grand Drape
Cues
Gobo
5. According to what do lighting designers arrange their light plots - allowing them to follow a 'map' of the plot
Masking
Channels
Gobo
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
6. 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.
Fly loft
Loft Block
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Batten Clamp
7. Connection between pipe batten and lift lines - before trim chain.
Channels
Batten Clamp
Company Manager
Drop
8. According to what do lighting designers arrange their light plots - allowing them to follow a 'map' of the plot
Arena Stage
Channels
Actual vs. Nominal
Scenic Director
9. A theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
Gobo
Thrust Stage
Company Manager
Source 4 ERS
10. Most effective device for controlling a fire in the theatre - or any building
Platforms
Thrust Stage
Sprinkling system
FOH: Front of House
11. Final artistic choices go to
olor Elevations
Director
Upstage
Gussets
12. 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
Circuit
Section View
Center Line
Stage Manager
13. What is anything downstage from the plaster line in a proscenium house?
Stage Manager
FOH: Front of House
Section View
Head block
14. A system of rigging and ropes that is used to raise and lower scenery within on stage - operated by hand or mechanically from backstage.
Catwalk
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Rake
Lighting Designer
15. Figures out place - theme of season and has final say
ontinental Seating
Artistic Director
Gridiron
SAFETY
16. A performance space in which the audience sits in front of the stage and views as if through a picture frame
Cyclorama
Proscenium Stage
short short - short - center - long - long long
Sprinkling system
17. Concierge - takes care of everyone - handles contracts
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Scrim
Drapery
Company Manager
18. 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
Head block
Black Box
Sprinkling system
19. Grainer
Masking
Rocker
ontinental Seating
Rake
20. The person who finds the financial investors - hires the director and production staff - sets the budget - and pays the bills for a theatrical production
Gridiron
ontinental Seating
Producer
Apron
21. Front part or area of the stage extending past the main act curtain; also called lip
Source 4 ERS
Pit
Rails & Styles
Apron
22. 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
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Proscenium Stage
Actual vs. Nominal
23. Most effective device for controlling a fire in the theatre - or any building
Actual vs. Nominal
Sprinkling system
Cyclorama
Production Manager
24. A metal cutout that is placed in front of the lens of a lighting instrument to create different shadowed images on stage
Front of House (FOH)
Gobo
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Crossover
25. Fire curtain used to be called this
Smoke Pocket
Asbestos
Dramaturg
Channels
26. Figures out place - theme of season and has final say
Artistic Director
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Loading Dock
olor Elevations
27. Six steps to hang a light (fresnel or ellipsoidals)
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Proscenium Stage
Flats
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
28. Painted boards that the scenic designer uses to communicate with the scenic artist
Source 4 ERS
Company Manager
Artistic Director
olor Elevations
29. First rule of any work done in theatre space or shop
Gobo
SAFETY
Scrim
Head block
30. A theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
Dimmers
Thrust Stage
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Perspective Scenery
31. 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.
Pit
Vomitorium
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Fusible links
32. What type of stage is Zellerbach playhouse?
Fly Space
Proscenium Stage
Cues
Circuit
33. Correct order of a 5 line system pipe
short short - short - center - long - long long
Downstage
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Flats
34. Scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen
Board of Directors
Stand pipe
Board of Directors
Masking
35. Painted boards that the scenic designer uses to communicate with the scenic artist
Pipe weight
olor Elevations
Catwalk
Borders
36. Made of plastic or vinyl - can project lights and images from front or back of them.
Arena Stage
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Tormentors
37. Front part or area of the stage extending past the main act curtain; also called lip
Stand pipe
Apron
TPI
olor Elevations
38. Made up of dimmers - map of plot
Cove
Dramaturg
Channels
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
39. Scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen
Masking
Lighting Designer
Master Electrician/Electrician
Vomitorium
40. Also called the main drape - the grand curtain - or the main rag; the one that has to open for the show to start
Section View
Loading Dock
Production Manager
Grand Drape
41. An imaginary line running from the front to the back of the stage through the exact center of the proscenium arch
Center Line
Lighting Designer
Fire Curtain
Circuit
42. The purchase (hand) line runs through the __________ so it can be secured in place.
Borders
Locking rail
Cyclorama
Pit
43. First rule of any work done in theatre space or shop
SAFETY
Scenic Designer
Masking
Milliner
44. 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
Fly Space
Plaster Line
Black Box
Dramaturg
45. A platform where pig irons are loaded onto or off of arbors
Loft Block
Loading Dock
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Actual vs. Nominal
46. Everything hands on - the person who figures out how the set will be built and then oversees construction - works closest with Scenic Director
Technical Director
Fresnel
Asbestos
Set Pieces
47. First rules of safety in theater
Look - listen - and learn
Artistic Director
Gridiron
Stand pipe
48. (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
Gussets
Milliner
Rails & Styles
49. 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
Director
Rake
Tormentors
Loft Block
50. A curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies
Drop
Center Line
Grand Drape
Company Manager