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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. What kind of pipe batten does Zellerbach use/order?
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Platforms
Two Fer
2. Two instruments - same circuit
Two Fer
Offstage
Producer
Milliner
3. First rule of any work done in theatre space or shop
SAFETY
Lighting Designer
Asbestos
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
4. A performance space in which the audience sits all around the stage; sometimes called in-the-round
Elevation
Black Box
Arena Stage
Actual vs. Nominal
5. Correct order of a 5 line system pipe
short short - short - center - long - long long
Cyclorama
Head block
Loft Block
6. Any incline of audience or stage.
Overhung
FOH: Front of House
Production Manager
Rake
7. 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
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Dramaturg
Gel
Voltage
8. Scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen
Masking
Ground Plan
Fusible links
Stage Manager
9. An imaginary line running from the front to the back of the stage through the exact center of the proscenium arch
Center Line
Proscenium Stage
Cove
Head block
10. One that makes - trims - designs hats; also sometimes handles accessories
Proscenium Stage
Scenic Designer
Dimmers
Milliner
11. Scenic term - deceiving the eye: from far away looks real but close it's just tricky talent
Scenic Director
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Trump Ploy
Crossover
12. 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
Tormentors
Company Manager
Center Line
Black Box
13. One that makes - trims - designs hats; also sometimes handles accessories
Milliner
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Plaster Line
Trap room
14. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Ground Plan
Crossover
Scrim
Locking rail
15. Also called the main drape - the grand curtain - or the main rag; the one that has to open for the show to start
Scrim
Grand Drape
Fly Space
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
16. First rule of any work done in theatre space or shop
SAFETY
Locking rail
Trap room
Sprinkling system
17. Six steps to hang a light (fresnel or ellipsoidals)
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Downstage
Channels
Master Electrician/Electrician
18. (Walls) - Flat pieces of theatrical scenery which are painted and positioned on stage so as to give the appearance of buildings or other background
Scrim
Gussets
Flats
Catwalk
19. Orchestra pit where the band plays
Pit
Plaster Line
Stage Directions
Grand Drape
20. A narrow - elevated walkway above the stage or the house or stage where crew members might access lights or flown scenery
Downstage
Catwalk
Source 4 ERS
Platform
21. 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
Lighting Designer
Elevation
Smoke Pocket
22. Area above the stage where scenery - drops - and lights are hung when not in use
Apron
Fire Curtain
Set Pieces
Fly Space
23. Front part or area of the stage extending past the main act curtain; also called lip
Pit
Batten Clamp
Channels
Apron
24. Flat view - floor plan of the stage and set (used to scale) - view of area if room came off
Ground Plan
Rocker
Company Manager
SAFETY
25. Connection between pipe batten and lift lines - before trim chain.
Scrim
SAFETY
Batten Clamp
Two Fer
26. Six steps to hang a light (fresnel or ellipsoidals)
Crossover
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Borders
Perspective Scenery
27. Figures out place - theme of season and has final say
Pit
Master Electrician/Electrician
Thrust Stage
Artistic Director
28. Anything and everything in lobby - downstage from proscenium
Borders
Front of House (FOH)
Lighting Designer
Trap room
29. Flat view of area if cut or sliced - like a dissection and see inner workings of multiple levels
Downstage
Drop
Set Pieces
Section View
30. The purchase (hand) line runs through the __________ so it can be secured in place.
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Circuit
Rocker
Locking rail
31. Most effective device for controlling a fire in the theatre - or any building
Gel
Cove
Sprinkling system
TPI
32. Steel framework that runs above the stage that is used to support the rigging system
Gridiron
Drop
Technical Director
Lighting Designer
33. 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.
Upstage
Company Manager
Proscenium Stage
Vomitorium
34. 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
Stand pipe
Board of Directors
Black Box
Crossover
35. 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
Catwalk
TPI
Producer
36. 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
Apron
Loft Block
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Fly loft
37. According to what do lighting designers arrange their light plots - allowing them to follow a 'map' of the plot
Tormentors
Smoke Pocket
Channels
Two Fer
38. (Seating) entering & exiting at extreme ends; Zellerbach Playhouse is like this
Masking
Black Box
FOH: Front of House
ontinental Seating
39. 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
Pipe weight
Loading Dock
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Borders
40. Grainer
Fusible links
Rocker
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Dramaturg
41. Large portables pieces of the stage setting
Stand pipe
Pipe weight
Set Pieces
Rails & Styles
42. Underneath the stage where things are stored (like ERS' or Fresnels and seats)
Producer
Milliner
Masking
Trap room
43. A performance space in which the audience sits in front of the stage and views as if through a picture frame
Fly loft
Proscenium Stage
Fly loft
Apron
44. Space above the stage - Space above the stage where scenery may be lifted out of sight by means of ropes and pulleys
Loft Block
Grand Drape
Voltage
Fly loft
45. Makes shoes
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Arena Stage
Vomitorium
Scrim
46. First rules of safety in theater
Look - listen - and learn
Lighting Designer
Rails & Styles
Black Box
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
Actual vs. Nominal
Drop
Wings
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
48. The person who finds the financial investors - hires the director and production staff - sets the budget - and pays the bills for a theatrical production
Fusible links
Apron
Producer
Trump Ploy
49. Creates a visual home for the play on stage - setting (color)
Scenic Director
Front of House (FOH)
Master Electrician/Electrician
Black Box
50. Fire curtain used to be called this
Milliner
Asbestos
Wings
Stage Manager