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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. Levels of intensity
Apron
Channels
Dimmers
ontinental Seating
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.
Platform
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Channels
Rocker
3. Any incline of audience or stage.
Cyclorama
Rake
Crossover
Set Pieces
4. One that makes - trims - designs hats; also sometimes handles accessories
SAFETY
Milliner
Cyclorama
Elevation
5. The side areas of the stage - out of view of the audience; the area where the actors wait for their entrances
Downstage
TPI
Wings
Gel
6. Designer that usually determines the color of the show
Scenic Designer
Proscenium Stage
Thrust Stage
Voltage
7. Also known as legs - flats or curtains at the extreme right and left of stage
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Tormentors
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Voltage
8. According to what do lighting designers arrange their light plots - allowing them to follow a 'map' of the plot
Channels
olor Elevations
Locking rail
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
9. Space above the stage - Space above the stage where scenery may be lifted out of sight by means of ropes and pulleys
Gel
Ground Plan
Fly loft
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
10. Grainer
Center Line
Set Pieces
Rocker
ontinental Seating
11. Painted boards that the scenic designer uses to communicate with the scenic artist
Rails & Styles
Platform
FOH: Front of House
olor Elevations
12. A performance space in which the audience sits all around the stage; sometimes called in-the-round
Apron
Arena Stage
Gridiron
Tormentors
13. Scenic term - deceiving the eye: from far away looks real but close it's just tricky talent
Drapery
Milliner
Center Line
Trump Ploy
14. Final artistic choices go to
Director
Wings
Smoke Pocket
Loft Block
15. A narrow - elevated walkway above the stage or the house or stage where crew members might access lights or flown scenery
Arena Stage
Catwalk
Channels
Smoke Pocket
16. (Framing) - Rails (shorter) always caps a style (long)
Channels
ontinental Seating
Rails & Styles
Dramaturg
17. What type of stage is Zellerbach playhouse?
Scenic Director
Proscenium Stage
Flats
Crossover
18. An imaginary line running from the front to the back of the stage through the exact center of the proscenium arch
Head block
Center Line
Pipe weight
Stand pipe
19. Lighting position: anti-pro - or anti-proscenium
Catwalk
Cove
Gel
Producer
20. A narrow - elevated walkway above the stage or the house or stage where crew members might access lights or flown scenery
Elevation
Proscenium Stage
Trump Ploy
Catwalk
21. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Dimmers
Plaster Line
SAFETY
Crossover
22. Teeth per inch (razors/blades) - fewer for softer wood - more cuts through metal (unforgiving)
Look - listen - and learn
TPI
Perspective Scenery
Loading Dock
23. First rule of any work done in theatre space or shop
Gel
SAFETY
Fly Space
Apron
24. Pressure
Voltage
Scenic Director
Sprinkling system
Look - listen - and learn
25. Metal connectors that holds the fire curtain in the air
Scrim
Fusible links
Catwalk
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
26. A theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
Fresnel
Plaster Line
Lighting Designer
Thrust Stage
27. Metal connectors that holds the fire curtain in the air
Cues
Fusible links
Proscenium Stage
Locking rail
28. Painted set on the ground which the actors stand on
Trump Ploy
Director
Platform
SAFETY
29. Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
Rocker
Director
Tormentors
Fire Curtain
30. Designer that usually determines the color of the show
Drop
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Scenic Designer
Fusible links
31. Stage weights that remain on arbor when there are no scenery or lights attached
Grand Drape
Director
Scenic Designer
Pipe weight
32. According to what do lighting designers arrange their light plots - allowing them to follow a 'map' of the plot
Sprinkling system
TPI
Channels
Board of Directors
33. 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
Fire Curtain
Loading Dock
Pipe weight
Borders
34. A stage area out of sight of the audience
Trap room
Offstage
Rails & Styles
Center Line
35. Connection between pipe batten and lift lines - before trim chain.
Stage Directions
Batten Clamp
Milliner
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
36. 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
Front of House (FOH)
Circuit
Loft Block
Lighting Designer
37. The part of the stage closest to the audience
Downstage
Upstage
Dramaturg
Pipe weight
38. A performance space in which the audience sits in front of the stage and views as if through a picture frame
Producer
Proscenium Stage
Plaster Line
olor Elevations
39. Makes shoes
Fly Space
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Thrust Stage
Pipe weight
40. Main wheel at the top of the counterweight arbor system
Cove
Platforms
Head block
Elevation
41. A thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects
Gel
Masking
Producer
Catwalk
42. Hanging cloth used as a blind - especially for a window
Production Manager
Apron
Drapery
Trump Ploy
43. 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
Board of Directors
short short - short - center - long - long long
Stage Manager
Dimmers
44. 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
Locking rail
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Dramaturg
45. Final artistic choices go to
Scrim
Drapery
Director
Master Electrician/Electrician
46. Front part or area of the stage extending past the main act curtain; also called lip
Cyclorama
Fly loft
Vomitorium
Apron
47. Large portables pieces of the stage setting
Drapery
Fresnel
Trap room
Set Pieces
48. (Seating) entering & exiting at extreme ends; Zellerbach Playhouse is like this
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
ontinental Seating
Wings
Channels
49. 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
Scenic Director
Scenic Designer
Stand pipe
50. A curtain that travels up and down inside a guide; fire curtain track
Pit
Production Manager
Smoke Pocket
Vomitorium