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Stagecraft Basics
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Study First
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. Lighting position: anti-pro - or anti-proscenium
Producer
Cove
Gussets
Drapery
2. A performance space in which the audience sits all around the stage; sometimes called in-the-round
Trap room
Masking
Catwalk
Arena Stage
3. Concierge - takes care of everyone - handles contracts
Director
Company Manager
TPI
Director
4. Hanging cloth used as a blind - especially for a window
Company Manager
Drapery
Loading Dock
Pit
5. (Framing) - Rails (shorter) always caps a style (long)
Rails & Styles
Gel
Wings
Rocker
6. Makes shoes
Crossover
Scrim
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Smoke Pocket
7. The person who finds the financial investors - hires the director and production staff - sets the budget - and pays the bills for a theatrical production
Lighting Designer
Fire Curtain
Masking
Producer
8. Large portables pieces of the stage setting
Set Pieces
Drop
SAFETY
Stand pipe
9. Anything and everything in lobby - downstage from proscenium
Front of House (FOH)
Channels
Cyclorama
Flats
10. Front part or area of the stage extending past the main act curtain; also called lip
Ground Plan
Stand pipe
Scrim
Apron
11. Pressure
Channels
Locking rail
Voltage
Trap room
12. Scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen
Scenic Director
Plaster Line
Gel
Masking
13. Connection between pipe batten and lift lines - before trim chain.
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Director
Batten Clamp
Stand pipe
14. (Seating) entering & exiting at extreme ends; Zellerbach Playhouse is like this
Apron
ontinental Seating
Dramaturg
Gridiron
15. A metal cutout that is placed in front of the lens of a lighting instrument to create different shadowed images on stage
Upstage
Gobo
Loading Dock
Apron
16. Set that's on the ground to stand on; painted
Sprinkling system
Fly Space
Platforms
Gel
17. 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.
Cues
Black Box
Vomitorium
Gridiron
18. Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
Batten Clamp
Wings
Two Fer
Director
19. Reinforcers that joints in wood and metal - anything that connects (Keystone - corner block - anything that bridges two pieces together )
olor Elevations
Gussets
ontinental Seating
Ground Plan
20. Orchestra pit where the band plays
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Pit
Plaster Line
Stand pipe
21. A system of rigging and ropes that is used to raise and lower scenery within on stage - operated by hand or mechanically from backstage.
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Gridiron
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Apron
22. What type of stage is Zellerbach playhouse?
Producer
Proscenium Stage
Scrim
Two Fer
23. A performance space in which the audience sits in front of the stage and views as if through a picture frame
Proscenium Stage
Smoke Pocket
Fly Space
Company Manager
24. Plug in wall
Scenic Director
Circuit
Downstage
Artistic Director
25. Lighting position: anti-pro - or anti-proscenium
Cove
Fusible links
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Head block
26. Helps to protect the audience from fires that happen on stage - comes in fast and helps to conceal the fire in one place
Section View
Fire Curtain
Downstage
Smoke Pocket
27. 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.
Gridiron
Vomitorium
Trap room
Section View
28. Plug in wall
Apron
Circuit
Elevation
Section View
29. Lighting instrument whose name refers to the etched or contoured glass lens
Fresnel
Production Manager
Gridiron
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
30. 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
Pit
Board of Directors
Fire Curtain
Gobo
31. Steel framework that runs above the stage that is used to support the rigging system
Center Line
Gridiron
Milliner
Producer
32. Designer that usually determines the color of the show
Scrim
Trap room
Scenic Designer
Producer
33. Painted set on the ground which the actors stand on
FOH: Front of House
Overhung
Platform
Actual vs. Nominal
34. 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
Cove
Cues
Sprinkling system
35. Best friends with Sound Tech in that both work hand in hand - makes everything work (elec) - wires - hangs - plugs & focuses according to Lighting Designer
Flats
Loading Dock
Master Electrician/Electrician
Overhung
36. The area onstage furthest away from the audience
Fly Space
Gridiron
Downstage
Upstage
37. Made of channels - A visual or aural signal that indicates the beginning of an action - line of dialogue - or piece of music
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Center Line
Cues
Thrust Stage
38. (Walls) - Flat pieces of theatrical scenery which are painted and positioned on stage so as to give the appearance of buildings or other background
Drapery
Artistic Director
Flats
Channels
39. Figures out place - theme of season and has final say
Artistic Director
Two Fer
Stand pipe
Cues
40. The person in charge backstage; he or she helps the director during rehearsals and then takes charge backstage when the play is performed - also has to deal with performer's behavior
Proscenium Stage
Set Pieces
Stage Manager
Director
41. An imaginary line running from the front to the back of the stage through the exact center of the proscenium arch
Cyclorama
Center Line
Masking
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
42. Hanging cloth used as a blind - especially for a window
Drapery
Drop
Elevation
Rake
43. A thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Artistic Director
Gel
Center Line
44. Final artistic choices go to
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Fly Space
Producer
Director
45. Flat view of area from a direction (north - south - east - west and in between)
Production Manager
Head block
Fresnel
Elevation
46. Made of plastic or vinyl - can project lights and images from front or back of them.
Cove
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Apron
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
47. One that makes - trims - designs hats; also sometimes handles accessories
Source 4 ERS
Milliner
Master Electrician/Electrician
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
48. A system of rigging and ropes that is used to raise and lower scenery within on stage - operated by hand or mechanically from backstage.
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Arena Stage
Perspective Scenery
Milliner
49. Helps to protect the audience from fires that happen on stage - comes in fast and helps to conceal the fire in one place
Front of House (FOH)
Cove
Fire Curtain
Trap room
50. 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
Set Pieces
Loft Block
Two Fer
Production Manager