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Stagecraft Basics
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Underneath the stage where things are stored (like ERS' or Fresnels and seats)
Dramaturg
Trap room
Perspective Scenery
Stand pipe
2. A performance space in which the audience sits all around the stage; sometimes called in-the-round
Arena Stage
Cues
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Company Manager
3. What kind of pipe batten does Zellerbach use/order?
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Ground Plan
Pipe weight
Tormentors
4. Any incline of audience or stage.
Rake
Milliner
Downstage
short short - short - center - long - long long
5. Figures out place - theme of season and has final say
Artistic Director
Board of Directors
FOH: Front of House
Head block
6. Made of channels - A visual or aural signal that indicates the beginning of an action - line of dialogue - or piece of music
Upstage
Cues
Grand Drape
FOH: Front of House
7. 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.
Circuit
Producer
Scrim
Vomitorium
8. 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
Voltage
Elevation
Gobo
9. A stage area out of sight of the audience
Scrim
Look - listen - and learn
Perspective Scenery
Offstage
10. Pressure
Voltage
Dimmers
Smoke Pocket
Sprinkling system
11. Lighting instrument whose name refers to the etched or contoured glass lens
Loft Block
Stage Directions
Perspective Scenery
Fresnel
12. The part of the stage closest to the audience
Plaster Line
Loft Block
Downstage
Stand pipe
13. Creates a visual home for the play on stage - setting (color)
Scenic Director
Board of Directors
short short - short - center - long - long long
Center Line
14. A hose connection for a fire hose
Platform
Black Box
Cove
Stand pipe
15. 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
Locking rail
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Upstage
Borders
16. 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.
Offstage
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Downstage
Fresnel
17. Flat view of area from a direction (north - south - east - west and in between)
Source 4 ERS
Plaster Line
Elevation
TPI
18. Flat view of area if cut or sliced - like a dissection and see inner workings of multiple levels
Borders
Rocker
Section View
Drop
19. Everything filters through from Artistic Team - knows budget of time - labor - and money; keeps everyone in communication - conductor/diplomat
Crossover
Thrust Stage
Gobo
Production Manager
20. A narrow - elevated walkway above the stage or the house or stage where crew members might access lights or flown scenery
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Catwalk
Circuit
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
21. One that makes - trims - designs hats; also sometimes handles accessories
Downstage
Rake
Circuit
Milliner
22. Scenery that represents three-dimensional space on a flat surface
Gridiron
Perspective Scenery
Stand pipe
Lighting Designer
23. Stage weights that remain on arbor when there are no scenery or lights attached
Grand Drape
Scenic Designer
Ground Plan
Pipe weight
24. A theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
Tormentors
Thrust Stage
Asbestos
Flats
25. Flat view - floor plan of the stage and set (used to scale) - view of area if room came off
Ground Plan
Catwalk
Proscenium Stage
Source 4 ERS
26. Anything and everything in lobby - downstage from proscenium
Front of House (FOH)
Artistic Director
Thrust Stage
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
27. (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
Rake
Center Line
Actual vs. Nominal
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
28. Correct order of a 5 line system pipe
short short - short - center - long - long long
Batten Clamp
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Stand pipe
29. 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
Catwalk
Loft Block
Rake
Apron
30. Orchestra pit where the band plays
Dimmers
Producer
Stand pipe
Pit
31. What is anything downstage from the plaster line in a proscenium house?
Loft Block
FOH: Front of House
olor Elevations
Loading Dock
32. A thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects
Scenic Director
Gel
Crossover
FOH: Front of House
33. A thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects
Masking
Circuit
Gel
Drapery
34. Also known as legs - flats or curtains at the extreme right and left of stage
Elevation
Tormentors
Wings
Cove
35. Loft blocks in Zellerbach Playhouse are __________ for easier access and movement
Proscenium Stage
FOH: Front of House
Front of House (FOH)
Overhung
36. A system of rigging and ropes that is used to raise and lower scenery within on stage - operated by hand or mechanically from backstage.
Voltage
Fire Curtain
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Head block
37. 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
Fusible links
Trump Ploy
Plaster Line
38. 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.
Director
FOH: Front of House
Vomitorium
Channels
39. A curtain that travels up and down inside a guide; fire curtain track
Voltage
Smoke Pocket
Rocker
Tormentors
40. Set that's on the ground to stand on; painted
Platforms
Circuit
Proscenium Stage
Production Manager
41. The purchase (hand) line runs through the __________ so it can be secured in place.
Production Manager
Elevation
Locking rail
Smoke Pocket
42. Painted set on the ground which the actors stand on
Cues
Producer
Platform
Head block
43. 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
Crossover
Fly Space
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Board of Directors
44. (Framing) - Rails (shorter) always caps a style (long)
Gobo
Rails & Styles
Company Manager
Fire Curtain
45. Front part or area of the stage extending past the main act curtain; also called lip
Scenic Director
ontinental Seating
Cues
Apron
46. One who works in the theatre as a resource for the history of plays and dramatic literature. They research - study - write - and often teach this material to others
Proscenium Stage
Fusible links
Company Manager
Dramaturg
47. (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
Gobo
Locking rail
Master Electrician/Electrician
Actual vs. Nominal
48. Scenic term - deceiving the eye: from far away looks real but close it's just tricky talent
Batten Clamp
Actual vs. Nominal
Trump Ploy
Proscenium Stage
49. The purchase (hand) line runs through the __________ so it can be secured in place.
Downstage
Source 4 ERS
Channels
Locking rail
50. Two instruments - same circuit
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Two Fer
Pit
Batten Clamp
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