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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. Fire curtain used to be called this
Asbestos
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Upstage
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
2. What is anything downstage from the plaster line in a proscenium house?
Trap room
FOH: Front of House
Gridiron
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
3. 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.
Gussets
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Channels
Fly Space
4. Orchestra pit where the band plays
Section View
Pit
Pipe weight
Director
5. 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.
Lighting Designer
Dramaturg
Set Pieces
Vomitorium
6. Made of channels - A visual or aural signal that indicates the beginning of an action - line of dialogue - or piece of music
Stage Manager
Stage Directions
Section View
Cues
7. 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
Fly Space
Dimmers
Trap room
8. Concierge - takes care of everyone - handles contracts
Drapery
Pipe weight
Company Manager
Rails & Styles
9. 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
Borders
Downstage
Fresnel
Scenic Designer
10. Creates a visual home for the play on stage - setting (color)
Grand Drape
Fire Curtain
Scenic Director
Producer
11. 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
Voltage
Source 4 ERS
Rake
12. 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
Lighting Designer
Thrust Stage
Stage Directions
Gel
13. 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
Rake
Borders
Cove
FOH: Front of House
14. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Cues
Source 4 ERS
Channels
Sprinkling system
15. A metal cutout that is placed in front of the lens of a lighting instrument to create different shadowed images on stage
Gobo
Channels
Grand Drape
Director
16. The area onstage furthest away from the audience
Upstage
Production Manager
Cove
Production Manager
17. Correct order of a 5 line system pipe
Offstage
Plaster Line
Stand pipe
short short - short - center - long - long long
18. Creates a visual home for the play on stage - setting (color)
Fusible links
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Scenic Director
Pit
19. Grainer
Two Fer
Voltage
Tormentors
Rocker
20. 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
Grand Drape
Locking rail
Stage Manager
Dramaturg
21. Fire curtain used to be called this
Section View
Gel
Asbestos
Actual vs. Nominal
22. Makes shoes
Wings
Scenic Designer
Channels
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
23. Painted set on the ground which the actors stand on
Smoke Pocket
Platform
Source 4 ERS
Scrim
24. Best friends with Sound Tech in that both work hand in hand - makes everything work (elec) - wires - hangs - plugs & focuses according to Lighting Designer
Rails & Styles
Master Electrician/Electrician
Rake
Smoke Pocket
25. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Source 4 ERS
Borders
Lighting Designer
Masking
26. Concierge - takes care of everyone - handles contracts
Company Manager
Plaster Line
Scenic Designer
Smoke Pocket
27. An imaginary line running from the front to the back of the stage through the exact center of the proscenium arch
Center Line
Cues
Director
Platform
28. Flat view of area if cut or sliced - like a dissection and see inner workings of multiple levels
Milliner
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Wings
Section View
29. Also called the main drape - the grand curtain - or the main rag; the one that has to open for the show to start
Grand Drape
Rocker
Elevation
Tormentors
30. 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
Ground Plan
Cyclorama
Milliner
Stage Manager
31. 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
Look - listen - and learn
Elevation
Loft Block
Two Fer
32. Underneath the stage where things are stored (like ERS' or Fresnels and seats)
Fly loft
Pit
Pipe weight
Trap room
33. Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
Fresnel
Thrust Stage
Director
Crossover
34. Everything filters through from Artistic Team - knows budget of time - labor - and money; keeps everyone in communication - conductor/diplomat
Locking rail
Actual vs. Nominal
Scenic Director
Production Manager
35. The area onstage furthest away from the audience
Wings
Upstage
Fly Space
Center Line
36. Made up of dimmers - map of plot
Proscenium Stage
Technical Director
Voltage
Channels
37. A theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
Black Box
Thrust Stage
Cove
Channels
38. A performance space in which the audience sits all around the stage; sometimes called in-the-round
Master Electrician/Electrician
Master Electrician/Electrician
Stage Directions
Arena Stage
39. (Framing) - Rails (shorter) always caps a style (long)
Rails & Styles
short short - short - center - long - long long
Vomitorium
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
40. A curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Drapery
Lighting Designer
Drop
41. 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
Batten Clamp
Dimmers
Proscenium Stage
Scrim
42. 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
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
FOH: Front of House
Dramaturg
Elevation
43. Reinforcers that joints in wood and metal - anything that connects (Keystone - corner block - anything that bridges two pieces together )
Elevation
Proscenium Stage
Gussets
Director
44. Large portables pieces of the stage setting
Set Pieces
Look - listen - and learn
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Masking
45. Area above the stage where scenery - drops - and lights are hung when not in use
FOH: Front of House
Fly Space
Flats
Trap room
46. (Seating) entering & exiting at extreme ends; Zellerbach Playhouse is like this
Artistic Director
Scrim
Fire Curtain
ontinental Seating
47. Stage weights that remain on arbor when there are no scenery or lights attached
Borders
Pipe weight
Front of House (FOH)
Drapery
48. 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
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
short short - short - center - long - long long
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Dramaturg
49. Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Director
Asbestos
Channels
50. Imaginary line from one side of the proscenium opening tot he other - divides apron from the stage floor.
Producer
Plaster Line
Section View
Master Electrician/Electrician
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