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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. Makes shoes
Plaster Line
Ground Plan
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Perspective Scenery
2. Hanging cloth used as a blind - especially for a window
Drapery
Lighting Designer
Gussets
Cues
3. Directions from the actor's point of view
Plaster Line
Stage Directions
Crossover
Gobo
4. 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.
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Ground Plan
Head block
Proscenium Stage
5. Made up of dimmers - map of plot
Director
Channels
Board of Directors
Dramaturg
6. First rules of safety in theater
Tormentors
Grand Drape
Look - listen - and learn
Dramaturg
7. Pressure
Voltage
Dramaturg
Tormentors
Channels
8. Plug in wall
Arena Stage
Circuit
Asbestos
short short - short - center - long - long long
9. Space above the stage - Space above the stage where scenery may be lifted out of sight by means of ropes and pulleys
Fly loft
Dimmers
Drapery
Stage Directions
10. Everything filters through from Artistic Team - knows budget of time - labor - and money; keeps everyone in communication - conductor/diplomat
Producer
Stage Directions
Fresnel
Production Manager
11. What is anything downstage from the plaster line in a proscenium house?
FOH: Front of House
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Rake
Fusible links
12. Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
Director
Overhung
Head block
Offstage
13. A theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
Lighting Designer
Rocker
Stage Directions
Thrust Stage
14. 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 Space
Vomitorium
Rocker
ontinental Seating
15. Made of channels - A visual or aural signal that indicates the beginning of an action - line of dialogue - or piece of music
Cyclorama
Cues
Plaster Line
Black Box
16. A hose connection for a fire hose
Stage Directions
Section View
Stand pipe
Proscenium Stage
17. (Seating) entering & exiting at extreme ends; Zellerbach Playhouse is like this
Vomitorium
ontinental Seating
Locking rail
Thrust Stage
18. First rule of any work done in theatre space or shop
Stand pipe
SAFETY
Gobo
Apron
19. Hanging cloth used as a blind - especially for a window
Front of House (FOH)
Platform
Drapery
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
20. A performance space in which the audience sits in front of the stage and views as if through a picture frame
SAFETY
olor Elevations
Overhung
Proscenium Stage
21. Scenery that represents three-dimensional space on a flat surface
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Look - listen - and learn
Black Box
Perspective Scenery
22. A thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects
Milliner
Gel
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Smoke Pocket
23. The part of the stage closest to the audience
Cyclorama
Proscenium Stage
Artistic Director
Downstage
24. According to what do lighting designers arrange their light plots - allowing them to follow a 'map' of the plot
Sprinkling system
Channels
Masking
Platform
25. 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
Scrim
Production Manager
Arena Stage
Cove
26. Scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen
Two Fer
Masking
Source 4 ERS
Scenic Designer
27. (Framing) - Rails (shorter) always caps a style (long)
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Rails & Styles
Batten Clamp
Set Pieces
28. Levels of intensity
olor Elevations
Gel
Rake
Dimmers
29. The area onstage furthest away from the audience
Actual vs. Nominal
Voltage
Upstage
Gridiron
30. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Front of House (FOH)
Source 4 ERS
Loading Dock
31. Concierge - takes care of everyone - handles contracts
Company Manager
Gobo
Circuit
Overhung
32. A metal cutout that is placed in front of the lens of a lighting instrument to create different shadowed images on stage
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Plaster Line
Gobo
Channels
33. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Source 4 ERS
Fly Space
Flats
Rocker
34. Most effective device for controlling a fire in the theatre - or any building
Arena Stage
Fire Curtain
Sprinkling system
Gridiron
35. 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
Masking
Scrim
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Gel
36. Flat view of area from a direction (north - south - east - west and in between)
Fly loft
Gridiron
Scenic Designer
Elevation
37. 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.
Loft Block
Batten Clamp
Rocker
Vomitorium
38. Correct order of a 5 line system pipe
short short - short - center - long - long long
Pipe weight
Overhung
Technical Director
39. Flat view - floor plan of the stage and set (used to scale) - view of area if room came off
Ground Plan
Offstage
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
short short - short - center - long - long long
40. Lighting instrument whose name refers to the etched or contoured glass lens
Scenic Designer
Fly Space
Lighting Designer
Fresnel
41. 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
Production Manager
ontinental Seating
Elevation
Black Box
42. 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
Rake
Elevation
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
43. Plug in wall
Circuit
Center Line
Voltage
Arena Stage
44. Scenery that represents three-dimensional space on a flat surface
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Rocker
Perspective Scenery
Sprinkling system
45. 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.
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Artistic Director
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Arena Stage
46. Large portables pieces of the stage setting
Board of Directors
Trump Ploy
Set Pieces
Downstage
47. Designer that usually determines the color of the show
Gussets
Cove
Plaster Line
Scenic Designer
48. Front part or area of the stage extending past the main act curtain; also called lip
TPI
Drop
Production Manager
Apron
49. (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
Two Fer
Vomitorium
Milliner
Actual vs. Nominal
50. 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
Artistic Director
Stand pipe
Lighting Designer
Dimmers
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