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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. Made of plastic or vinyl - can project lights and images from front or back of them.
Black Box
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Gel
short short - short - center - long - long long
2. A performance space in which the audience sits in front of the stage and views as if through a picture frame
Proscenium Stage
Locking rail
Vomitorium
Black Box
3. Flat view of area if cut or sliced - like a dissection and see inner workings of multiple levels
Director
Producer
Section View
Fly Space
4. Loft blocks in Zellerbach Playhouse are __________ for easier access and movement
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Fire Curtain
Grand Drape
Overhung
5. 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
Scrim
Borders
Tormentors
Section View
6. A metal cutout that is placed in front of the lens of a lighting instrument to create different shadowed images on stage
Gobo
Cyclorama
SAFETY
Fly Space
7. Imaginary line from one side of the proscenium opening tot he other - divides apron from the stage floor.
Rails & Styles
Plaster Line
Sprinkling system
Dramaturg
8. To use a fire extinguish (acronym)
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Plaster Line
Look - listen - and learn
Dramaturg
9. Grainer
Apron
Rocker
Pipe weight
Dramaturg
10. Two instruments - same circuit
Stage Directions
Stage Directions
Offstage
Two Fer
11. 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.
Fly loft
Lighting Designer
Sprinkling system
Vomitorium
12. Concierge - takes care of everyone - handles contracts
Section View
Company Manager
Rake
Thrust Stage
13. Metal connectors that holds the fire curtain in the air
Fusible links
olor Elevations
Director
Scenic Designer
14. Correct order of a 5 line system pipe
Dramaturg
short short - short - center - long - long long
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Head block
15. Makes shoes
Trump Ploy
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Crossover
Scenic Director
16. Scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen
Source 4 ERS
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Masking
Scenic Designer
17. Best friends with Sound Tech in that both work hand in hand - makes everything work (elec) - wires - hangs - plugs & focuses according to Lighting Designer
Lighting Designer
Master Electrician/Electrician
Rails & Styles
Wings
18. A hose connection for a fire hose
Lighting Designer
Fly Space
Rails & Styles
Stand pipe
19. A curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies
Drop
Stand pipe
Gridiron
Upstage
20. A platform where pig irons are loaded onto or off of arbors
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Loading Dock
Proscenium Stage
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
21. Creates a visual home for the play on stage - setting (color)
Borders
Scenic Director
Locking rail
Scrim
22. 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
Gussets
Loft Block
Fly Space
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
23. 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
short short - short - center - long - long long
Loft Block
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
24. 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
Stage Manager
Catwalk
Apron
25. Any incline of audience or stage.
Fly loft
Rake
Set Pieces
Fly Space
26. A theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
Look - listen - and learn
Thrust Stage
Trump Ploy
olor Elevations
27. Connection between pipe batten and lift lines - before trim chain.
Thrust Stage
FOH: Front of House
Cyclorama
Batten Clamp
28. Stage weights that remain on arbor when there are no scenery or lights attached
Scrim
Pipe weight
Tormentors
Upstage
29. 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
Board of Directors
Offstage
Scrim
Head block
30. What kind of pipe batten does Zellerbach use/order?
Rake
Dramaturg
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Plaster Line
31. Anything and everything in lobby - downstage from proscenium
Smoke Pocket
Front of House (FOH)
Wings
Stage Directions
32. Space above the stage - Space above the stage where scenery may be lifted out of sight by means of ropes and pulleys
Fly loft
Smoke Pocket
Borders
Elevation
33. 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
Apron
Board of Directors
Master Electrician/Electrician
Channels
34. Large portables pieces of the stage setting
Cyclorama
Set Pieces
Head block
Fresnel
35. A hose connection for a fire hose
Scenic Designer
Stand pipe
Fire Curtain
Batten Clamp
36. One that makes - trims - designs hats; also sometimes handles accessories
Milliner
Black Box
Loft Block
SAFETY
37. 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
Gridiron
Asbestos
Trump Ploy
Cyclorama
38. Everything filters through from Artistic Team - knows budget of time - labor - and money; keeps everyone in communication - conductor/diplomat
Production Manager
Vomitorium
SAFETY
Catwalk
39. The side areas of the stage - out of view of the audience; the area where the actors wait for their entrances
Cove
Wings
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Thrust Stage
40. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Proscenium Stage
short short - short - center - long - long long
Company Manager
Crossover
41. (Seating) entering & exiting at extreme ends; Zellerbach Playhouse is like this
Wings
ontinental Seating
Loading Dock
Apron
42. To use a fire extinguish (acronym)
Proscenium Stage
Director
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Rocker
43. Reinforcers that joints in wood and metal - anything that connects (Keystone - corner block - anything that bridges two pieces together )
Stand pipe
Vomitorium
Board of Directors
Gussets
44. 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
Company Manager
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Board of Directors
Dramaturg
45. Lighting instrument whose name refers to the etched or contoured glass lens
Elevation
Fresnel
Offstage
Lighting Designer
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.
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
47. Plug in wall
Dimmers
Circuit
Apron
Batten Clamp
48. Hanging cloth used as a blind - especially for a window
Drapery
Proscenium Stage
Channels
Elevation
49. According to what do lighting designers arrange their light plots - allowing them to follow a 'map' of the plot
Channels
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Loft Block
Elevation
50. Directions from the actor's point of view
Stage Directions
Trap room
Downstage
Gussets