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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. Grainer
Channels
short short - short - center - long - long long
Rocker
Borders
2. A metal cutout that is placed in front of the lens of a lighting instrument to create different shadowed images on stage
Section View
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Gobo
Producer
3. Designer that usually determines the color of the show
Company Manager
Scenic Designer
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Channels
4. Underneath the stage where things are stored (like ERS' or Fresnels and seats)
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Trap room
Proscenium Stage
Platform
5. One that makes - trims - designs hats; also sometimes handles accessories
Company Manager
Source 4 ERS
Milliner
Scenic Director
6. What is anything downstage from the plaster line in a proscenium house?
FOH: Front of House
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Stage Manager
Center Line
7. Space above the stage - Space above the stage where scenery may be lifted out of sight by means of ropes and pulleys
Apron
Section View
Scenic Designer
Fly loft
8. 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.
Vomitorium
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Stage Manager
9. Also called the main drape - the grand curtain - or the main rag; the one that has to open for the show to start
Master Electrician/Electrician
Lighting Designer
Grand Drape
Front of House (FOH)
10. Scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Thrust Stage
Masking
Sprinkling system
11. Front part or area of the stage extending past the main act curtain; also called lip
Fresnel
Two Fer
Sprinkling system
Apron
12. Final artistic choices go to
Director
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Fly Space
Platform
13. First rule of any work done in theatre space or shop
SAFETY
Director
olor Elevations
Artistic Director
14. Hanging cloth used as a blind - especially for a window
Drapery
Apron
Section View
Technical Director
15. Designer that usually determines the color of the show
Technical Director
Scenic Designer
Drapery
Black Box
16. Levels of intensity
Stand pipe
Dimmers
FOH: Front of House
Technical Director
17. Imaginary line from one side of the proscenium opening tot he other - divides apron from the stage floor.
Stage Manager
Proscenium Stage
Plaster Line
Milliner
18. Metal connectors that holds the fire curtain in the air
Trump Ploy
Voltage
Fusible links
Loft Block
19. (Framing) - Rails (shorter) always caps a style (long)
Crossover
Pipe weight
Loft Block
Rails & Styles
20. 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
Scenic Director
Front of House (FOH)
Loft Block
Set Pieces
21. A curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies
Rake
Loft Block
Stage Manager
Drop
22. A hose connection for a fire hose
Stand pipe
Trap room
Two Fer
Actual vs. Nominal
23. (Walls) - Flat pieces of theatrical scenery which are painted and positioned on stage so as to give the appearance of buildings or other background
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Flats
short short - short - center - long - long long
Overhung
24. A platform where pig irons are loaded onto or off of arbors
olor Elevations
Loading Dock
Asbestos
Borders
25. Stage weights that remain on arbor when there are no scenery or lights attached
TPI
Rails & Styles
Pipe weight
Tormentors
26. Scenery that represents three-dimensional space on a flat surface
Platforms
Thrust Stage
Ground Plan
Perspective Scenery
27. 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
Cyclorama
Stage Manager
Borders
Asbestos
28. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Asbestos
Gobo
Crossover
Director
29. Steel framework that runs above the stage that is used to support the rigging system
Crossover
Proscenium Stage
Gridiron
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
30. Flat view of area from a direction (north - south - east - west and in between)
short short - short - center - long - long long
Tormentors
Elevation
Plaster Line
31. Plug in wall
Circuit
Trap room
Cues
Fly loft
32. Painted set on the ground which the actors stand on
Fusible links
Channels
Platform
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
33. Main wheel at the top of the counterweight arbor system
Smoke Pocket
Source 4 ERS
Director
Head block
34. A performance space in which the audience sits all around the stage; sometimes called in-the-round
Arena Stage
Rake
Front of House (FOH)
Channels
35. Levels of intensity
Dimmers
Head block
Gridiron
Scrim
36. A theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
Tormentors
Thrust Stage
Perspective Scenery
Technical Director
37. Lighting position: anti-pro - or anti-proscenium
Cove
Gel
Gussets
Fresnel
38. Pressure
Wings
Center Line
Voltage
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
39. 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
Technical Director
Crossover
Scrim
Elevation
40. Plug in wall
Technical Director
Masking
Rocker
Circuit
41. Lighting instrument whose name refers to the etched or contoured glass lens
Fusible links
Apron
Set Pieces
Fresnel
42. Directions from the actor's point of view
Overhung
Section View
Fire Curtain
Stage Directions
43. Made of plastic or vinyl - can project lights and images from front or back of them.
Batten Clamp
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Circuit
Loft Block
44. Flat view - floor plan of the stage and set (used to scale) - view of area if room came off
Fly loft
Ground Plan
Loading Dock
Smoke Pocket
45. Metal connectors that holds the fire curtain in the air
Fusible links
Head block
Smoke Pocket
Black Box
46. Also known as legs - flats or curtains at the extreme right and left of stage
Artistic Director
Tormentors
Cove
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
47. The purchase (hand) line runs through the __________ so it can be secured in place.
Perspective Scenery
Plaster Line
Locking rail
Pipe weight
48. Final artistic choices go to
Producer
Grand Drape
Director
Masking
49. 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
Trump Ploy
Pipe weight
Vomitorium
Borders
50. Underneath the stage where things are stored (like ERS' or Fresnels and seats)
Trap room
Rails & Styles
Producer
Channels