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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. Underneath the stage where things are stored (like ERS' or Fresnels and seats)
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Trap room
Wings
Rocker
2. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Plaster Line
Crossover
Artistic Director
Flats
3. 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
FOH: Front of House
Dramaturg
Actual vs. Nominal
Upstage
4. Pressure
short short - short - center - long - long long
Voltage
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
5. Stage weights that remain on arbor when there are no scenery or lights attached
Pipe weight
Company Manager
Scenic Designer
Gel
6. Helps to protect the audience from fires that happen on stage - comes in fast and helps to conceal the fire in one place
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Trap room
Fire Curtain
short short - short - center - long - long long
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
Pit
Catwalk
Dramaturg
Voltage
8. Imaginary line from one side of the proscenium opening tot he other - divides apron from the stage floor.
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Flats
Crossover
Plaster Line
9. Set that's on the ground to stand on; painted
Gridiron
Platforms
Drapery
Company Manager
10. 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.
Black Box
Vomitorium
Scenic Director
Production Manager
11. A performance space in which the audience sits all around the stage; sometimes called in-the-round
Company Manager
Overhung
Arena Stage
Trap room
12. Large portables pieces of the stage setting
Gel
Section View
Borders
Set Pieces
13. An imaginary line running from the front to the back of the stage through the exact center of the proscenium arch
Look - listen - and learn
Upstage
Center Line
Gel
14. (Walls) - Flat pieces of theatrical scenery which are painted and positioned on stage so as to give the appearance of buildings or other background
Apron
Loading Dock
Offstage
Flats
15. Made of channels - A visual or aural signal that indicates the beginning of an action - line of dialogue - or piece of music
Fly loft
Cues
Overhung
Tormentors
16. 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
Front of House (FOH)
Scrim
Proscenium Stage
Proscenium Stage
17. Makes shoes
Batten Clamp
Flats
Upstage
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
18. Final artistic choices go to
Director
Voltage
Stand pipe
Upstage
19. Made up of dimmers - map of plot
Upstage
Channels
Stage Directions
Rocker
20. Directions from the actor's point of view
Fusible links
Thrust Stage
Stage Directions
Milliner
21. A curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies
Stand pipe
Drop
Perspective Scenery
Channels
22. Plug in wall
Circuit
Dramaturg
Apron
Platforms
23. Metal connectors that holds the fire curtain in the air
Fusible links
Asbestos
Dramaturg
TPI
24. Flat view of area from a direction (north - south - east - west and in between)
ontinental Seating
Cyclorama
Elevation
Head block
25. A thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects
Gel
Elevation
Downstage
Pit
26. Painted boards that the scenic designer uses to communicate with the scenic artist
Perspective Scenery
Loft Block
olor Elevations
Scenic Director
27. Front part or area of the stage extending past the main act curtain; also called lip
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Overhung
Apron
Asbestos
28. Fire curtain used to be called this
Asbestos
Drop
Grand Drape
Overhung
29. Metal connectors that holds the fire curtain in the air
Fire Curtain
Vomitorium
FOH: Front of House
Fusible links
30. Painted set on the ground which the actors stand on
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Platform
Production Manager
TPI
31. A theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
Rake
Scenic Designer
Thrust Stage
Black Box
32. The purchase (hand) line runs through the __________ so it can be secured in place.
Locking rail
Cues
TPI
Stage Manager
33. Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
Director
Center Line
Overhung
Asbestos
34. A system of rigging and ropes that is used to raise and lower scenery within on stage - operated by hand or mechanically from backstage.
Cove
Fresnel
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Cyclorama
35. Creates a visual home for the play on stage - setting (color)
Offstage
Scenic Director
Company Manager
SAFETY
36. What type of stage is Zellerbach playhouse?
Asbestos
olor Elevations
Black Box
Proscenium Stage
37. Reinforcers that joints in wood and metal - anything that connects (Keystone - corner block - anything that bridges two pieces together )
SAFETY
Gussets
Plaster Line
Look - listen - and learn
38. Scenery that represents three-dimensional space on a flat surface
Perspective Scenery
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Arena Stage
Smoke Pocket
39. Underneath the stage where things are stored (like ERS' or Fresnels and seats)
Head block
Stage Manager
Trap room
Master Electrician/Electrician
40. (Walls) - Flat pieces of theatrical scenery which are painted and positioned on stage so as to give the appearance of buildings or other background
Channels
Offstage
Rake
Flats
41. Painted set on the ground which the actors stand on
Artistic Director
Set Pieces
Platform
Gobo
42. What type of stage is Zellerbach playhouse?
Head block
Black Box
Proscenium Stage
Ground Plan
43. Made of plastic or vinyl - can project lights and images from front or back of them.
Look - listen - and learn
Gussets
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Scenic Designer
44. A hose connection for a fire hose
Stand pipe
Wings
TPI
Batten Clamp
45. Makes shoes
Fresnel
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Fire Curtain
Cyclorama
46. Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
Director
Perspective Scenery
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
47. Creates a visual home for the play on stage - setting (color)
Cove
Gussets
Scenic Director
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
48. First rule of any work done in theatre space or shop
SAFETY
Rails & Styles
Proscenium Stage
FOH: Front of House
49. To use a fire extinguish (acronym)
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Rails & Styles
Flats
Loading Dock
50. What kind of pipe batten does Zellerbach use/order?
Fusible links
Technical Director
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Flats