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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. Main wheel at the top of the counterweight arbor system
Pit
Scrim
Head block
Stage Directions
2. A system of rigging and ropes that is used to raise and lower scenery within on stage - operated by hand or mechanically from backstage.
Catwalk
Source 4 ERS
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Grand Drape
3. Plug in wall
Actual vs. Nominal
Drapery
Circuit
Gridiron
4. Concierge - takes care of everyone - handles contracts
Channels
Company Manager
Scenic Designer
Overhung
5. First rule of any work done in theatre space or shop
SAFETY
Look - listen - and learn
Thrust Stage
Tormentors
6. Orchestra pit where the band plays
Dimmers
Pit
Gel
Overhung
7. 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
Black Box
Upstage
Wings
Gussets
8. 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
Loft Block
Circuit
Offstage
Proscenium Stage
9. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Scenic Director
Cues
Loading Dock
Crossover
10. Imaginary line from one side of the proscenium opening tot he other - divides apron from the stage floor.
Trap room
Smoke Pocket
Plaster Line
Proscenium Stage
11. 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
Fresnel
Master Electrician/Electrician
Loading Dock
12. Stage weights that remain on arbor when there are no scenery or lights attached
Stage Directions
Rocker
Pipe weight
Center Line
13. An imaginary line running from the front to the back of the stage through the exact center of the proscenium arch
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Center Line
Tormentors
Gel
14. Front part or area of the stage extending past the main act curtain; also called lip
Apron
Producer
Ground Plan
Fly Space
15. Best friends with Sound Tech in that both work hand in hand - makes everything work (elec) - wires - hangs - plugs & focuses according to Lighting Designer
Milliner
Master Electrician/Electrician
Scenic Director
Wings
16. (Framing) - Rails (shorter) always caps a style (long)
Wings
Platforms
Actual vs. Nominal
Rails & Styles
17. A narrow - elevated walkway above the stage or the house or stage where crew members might access lights or flown scenery
Stand pipe
Catwalk
Loft Block
Asbestos
18. A performance space in which the audience sits in front of the stage and views as if through a picture frame
Director
Proscenium Stage
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Platform
19. Makes shoes
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Rails & Styles
Ground Plan
Offstage
20. Six steps to hang a light (fresnel or ellipsoidals)
Set Pieces
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Gobo
Board of Directors
21. Connection between pipe batten and lift lines - before trim chain.
Batten Clamp
Platforms
Offstage
Scenic Designer
22. According to what do lighting designers arrange their light plots - allowing them to follow a 'map' of the plot
Look - listen - and learn
Upstage
Channels
Thrust Stage
23. Everything filters through from Artistic Team - knows budget of time - labor - and money; keeps everyone in communication - conductor/diplomat
Channels
Cyclorama
Director
Production Manager
24. 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
Black Box
Crossover
Thrust Stage
Overhung
25. The purchase (hand) line runs through the __________ so it can be secured in place.
Vomitorium
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Locking rail
Channels
26. Set that's on the ground to stand on; painted
Platform
Artistic Director
Platforms
Two Fer
27. A system of rigging and ropes that is used to raise and lower scenery within on stage - operated by hand or mechanically from backstage.
Master Electrician/Electrician
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Locking rail
Technical Director
28. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Apron
Crossover
Vomitorium
Master Electrician/Electrician
29. A stage area out of sight of the audience
Trap room
Two Fer
Offstage
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
30. Scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen
Pipe weight
Circuit
Cues
Masking
31. Grainer
Rocker
Gel
Producer
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
32. Final artistic choices go to
Catwalk
Stage Directions
Director
Locking rail
33. Two instruments - same circuit
Fresnel
Trap room
Two Fer
Elevation
34. Any incline of audience or stage.
Rake
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Crossover
Source 4 ERS
35. 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
Source 4 ERS
Production Manager
Artistic Director
Cyclorama
36. Made of plastic or vinyl - can project lights and images from front or back of them.
Director
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Platforms
Pit
37. Fire curtain used to be called this
Gridiron
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
TPI
Asbestos
38. 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
Loft Block
Catwalk
Lighting Designer
Fly Space
39. To use a fire extinguish (acronym)
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Black Box
Fire Curtain
40. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Center Line
FOH: Front of House
Source 4 ERS
Gussets
41. Scenic term - deceiving the eye: from far away looks real but close it's just tricky talent
Channels
Director
Lighting Designer
Trump Ploy
42. What is anything downstage from the plaster line in a proscenium house?
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
FOH: Front of House
Arena Stage
Production Manager
43. 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
FOH: Front of House
Asbestos
Scrim
Company Manager
44. Grainer
Proscenium Stage
Locking rail
Fly Space
Rocker
45. First rules of safety in theater
Downstage
Thrust Stage
Look - listen - and learn
Stage Directions
46. Set that's on the ground to stand on; painted
Platforms
Ground Plan
Lighting Designer
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
47. (Seating) entering & exiting at extreme ends; Zellerbach Playhouse is like this
Wings
short short - short - center - long - long long
ontinental Seating
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
48. Most effective device for controlling a fire in the theatre - or any building
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Board of Directors
Sprinkling system
Stage Manager
49. A metal cutout that is placed in front of the lens of a lighting instrument to create different shadowed images on stage
Set Pieces
Loft Block
Proscenium Stage
Gobo
50. Figures out place - theme of season and has final say
Artistic Director
Stand pipe
Perspective Scenery
short short - short - center - long - long long