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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. Metal connectors that holds the fire curtain in the air
Fusible links
Scenic Director
Circuit
Trump Ploy
2. 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
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Gel
Drop
Black Box
3. Designer that usually determines the color of the show
Plaster Line
Scenic Designer
Offstage
Dramaturg
4. Creates a visual home for the play on stage - setting (color)
Milliner
Perspective Scenery
Scenic Director
Director
5. A stage area out of sight of the audience
Center Line
Head block
Platform
Offstage
6. 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
Fire Curtain
Black Box
Catwalk
Trump Ploy
7. Imaginary line from one side of the proscenium opening tot he other - divides apron from the stage floor.
Crossover
Rails & Styles
Production Manager
Plaster Line
8. Metal connectors that holds the fire curtain in the air
Front of House (FOH)
Production Manager
Overhung
Fusible links
9. Directions from the actor's point of view
Master Electrician/Electrician
Drop
Stage Directions
Smoke Pocket
10. Everything filters through from Artistic Team - knows budget of time - labor - and money; keeps everyone in communication - conductor/diplomat
Scenic Designer
Actual vs. Nominal
TPI
Production Manager
11. The side areas of the stage - out of view of the audience; the area where the actors wait for their entrances
Wings
Downstage
Platform
Masking
12. The side areas of the stage - out of view of the audience; the area where the actors wait for their entrances
Arena Stage
SAFETY
Apron
Wings
13. Main wheel at the top of the counterweight arbor system
Upstage
Plaster Line
Production Manager
Head block
14. Made up of dimmers - map of plot
Channels
Stage Manager
Director
Drop
15. 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
FOH: Front of House
Loft Block
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Black Box
16. (Walls) - Flat pieces of theatrical scenery which are painted and positioned on stage so as to give the appearance of buildings or other background
Flats
Loft Block
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Production Manager
17. A performance space in which the audience sits in front of the stage and views as if through a picture frame
Source 4 ERS
Proscenium Stage
Trump Ploy
Circuit
18. Fire curtain used to be called this
Fusible links
Technical Director
Dimmers
Asbestos
19. The person who finds the financial investors - hires the director and production staff - sets the budget - and pays the bills for a theatrical production
Center Line
Producer
TPI
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
20. What is anything downstage from the plaster line in a proscenium house?
Channels
FOH: Front of House
Gussets
Fire Curtain
21. The area onstage furthest away from the audience
Upstage
Tormentors
Source 4 ERS
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
22. First rules of safety in theater
Grand Drape
Look - listen - and learn
Asbestos
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
23. 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
Cyclorama
Flats
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Vomitorium
24. Concierge - takes care of everyone - handles contracts
Company Manager
Rails & Styles
Rake
Ground Plan
25. Levels of intensity
Dimmers
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Elevation
Crossover
26. Orchestra pit where the band plays
Wings
Pit
Actual vs. Nominal
Elevation
27. Large portables pieces of the stage setting
Dramaturg
Drop
Pipe weight
Set Pieces
28. 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.
Production Manager
Vomitorium
Scenic Designer
Rails & Styles
29. What type of stage is Zellerbach playhouse?
Perspective Scenery
Proscenium Stage
Wings
Rails & Styles
30. Painted boards that the scenic designer uses to communicate with the scenic artist
olor Elevations
Technical Director
Producer
Elevation
31. Two instruments - same circuit
Stand pipe
olor Elevations
Two Fer
Crossover
32. The part of the stage closest to the audience
Smoke Pocket
Two Fer
Downstage
Technical Director
33. Scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen
Masking
Overhung
Arena Stage
Channels
34. Most effective device for controlling a fire in the theatre - or any building
Circuit
Pit
Sprinkling system
Channels
35. Made of channels - A visual or aural signal that indicates the beginning of an action - line of dialogue - or piece of music
Pit
Gobo
Source 4 ERS
Cues
36. Also known as legs - flats or curtains at the extreme right and left of stage
Tormentors
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Production Manager
Black Box
37. The area onstage furthest away from the audience
Upstage
short short - short - center - long - long long
Fire Curtain
Black Box
38. 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
Stage Manager
Overhung
Tormentors
Asbestos
39. Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
ontinental Seating
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Director
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
40. Lighting position: anti-pro - or anti-proscenium
Gridiron
Cove
Stand pipe
Fire Curtain
41. Stage weights that remain on arbor when there are no scenery or lights attached
Borders
Stage Directions
Pipe weight
Gussets
42. Imaginary line from one side of the proscenium opening tot he other - divides apron from the stage floor.
Drapery
Plaster Line
olor Elevations
Lighting Designer
43. The purchase (hand) line runs through the __________ so it can be secured in place.
Fly Space
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Locking rail
SAFETY
44. Set that's on the ground to stand on; painted
Cyclorama
Platforms
ontinental Seating
Apron
45. 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
Look - listen - and learn
Borders
Fresnel
Company Manager
46. Flat view of area if cut or sliced - like a dissection and see inner workings of multiple levels
Section View
Apron
Fire Curtain
Scenic Designer
47. Flat view - floor plan of the stage and set (used to scale) - view of area if room came off
Fresnel
Ground Plan
Actual vs. Nominal
Stage Manager
48. A thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects
Fly Space
Look - listen - and learn
Gel
Section View
49. 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
Gridiron
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Scenic Director
Loft Block
50. A narrow - elevated walkway above the stage or the house or stage where crew members might access lights or flown scenery
Voltage
Locking rail
Company Manager
Catwalk