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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. An imaginary line running from the front to the back of the stage through the exact center of the proscenium arch
Overhung
Proscenium Stage
Center Line
Black Box
2. A stage area out of sight of the audience
Elevation
Offstage
Batten Clamp
Cove
3. Also called the main drape - the grand curtain - or the main rag; the one that has to open for the show to start
Crossover
Voltage
Channels
Grand Drape
4. A platform where pig irons are loaded onto or off of arbors
Black Box
Milliner
Loading Dock
Asbestos
5. A curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies
Upstage
Drop
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Scrim
6. A narrow - elevated walkway above the stage or the house or stage where crew members might access lights or flown scenery
Platform
FOH: Front of House
Catwalk
Stage Directions
7. Most effective device for controlling a fire in the theatre - or any building
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Head block
Sprinkling system
Masking
8. 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
TPI
Trap room
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
9. Plug in wall
Actual vs. Nominal
Asbestos
Flats
Circuit
10. 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
Master Electrician/Electrician
Platform
Producer
11. Main wheel at the top of the counterweight arbor system
olor Elevations
Black Box
ontinental Seating
Head block
12. A metal cutout that is placed in front of the lens of a lighting instrument to create different shadowed images on stage
Gobo
Production Manager
Actual vs. Nominal
Overhung
13. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Drapery
Channels
Source 4 ERS
Batten Clamp
14. What is anything downstage from the plaster line in a proscenium house?
Drop
Milliner
Borders
FOH: Front of House
15. Levels of intensity
Dimmers
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Platform
Proscenium Stage
16. 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
Channels
Apron
Board of Directors
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
17. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Arena Stage
Source 4 ERS
Look - listen - and learn
Thrust Stage
18. (Framing) - Rails (shorter) always caps a style (long)
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Fly Space
SAFETY
Rails & Styles
19. Levels of intensity
ontinental Seating
Actual vs. Nominal
Tormentors
Dimmers
20. The side areas of the stage - out of view of the audience; the area where the actors wait for their entrances
Loft Block
Section View
Cues
Wings
21. Underneath the stage where things are stored (like ERS' or Fresnels and seats)
Milliner
Dimmers
Trap room
Channels
22. Front part or area of the stage extending past the main act curtain; also called lip
Apron
Cues
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Gridiron
23. Everything filters through from Artistic Team - knows budget of time - labor - and money; keeps everyone in communication - conductor/diplomat
Borders
Production Manager
Wings
Thrust Stage
24. Scenery that represents three-dimensional space on a flat surface
Perspective Scenery
Catwalk
Catwalk
Section View
25. Large portables pieces of the stage setting
Set Pieces
Rake
Circuit
Smoke Pocket
26. Metal connectors that holds the fire curtain in the air
Fly loft
Fusible links
Gridiron
Technical Director
27. A performance space in which the audience sits in front of the stage and views as if through a picture frame
Gobo
Company Manager
Proscenium Stage
Cove
28. To use a fire extinguish (acronym)
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Asbestos
Scenic Designer
Cues
29. Lighting position: anti-pro - or anti-proscenium
Loft Block
Cove
Tormentors
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
30. (Seating) entering & exiting at extreme ends; Zellerbach Playhouse is like this
Artistic Director
ontinental Seating
Front of House (FOH)
Cove
31. Painted boards that the scenic designer uses to communicate with the scenic artist
olor Elevations
Source 4 ERS
Arena Stage
SAFETY
32. Scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen
Elevation
Tormentors
Channels
Masking
33. Makes shoes
Artistic Director
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Dimmers
Overhung
34. Fire curtain used to be called this
Asbestos
Loading Dock
TPI
Actual vs. Nominal
35. According to what do lighting designers arrange their light plots - allowing them to follow a 'map' of the plot
Thrust Stage
Channels
Producer
Head block
36. Made of channels - A visual or aural signal that indicates the beginning of an action - line of dialogue - or piece of music
Lighting Designer
Flats
Cues
Proscenium Stage
37. 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.
Platform
Look - listen - and learn
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Arena Stage
38. Designer that usually determines the color of the show
Artistic Director
Pit
Front of House (FOH)
Scenic Designer
39. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Loading Dock
Drapery
Fly loft
Crossover
40. 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.
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Director
41. Flat view of area if cut or sliced - like a dissection and see inner workings of multiple levels
Section View
Proscenium Stage
Look - listen - and learn
Scrim
42. A platform where pig irons are loaded onto or off of arbors
Loading Dock
Dimmers
Center Line
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
43. Flat view - floor plan of the stage and set (used to scale) - view of area if room came off
Ground Plan
Fusible links
Voltage
Platforms
44. Helps to protect the audience from fires that happen on stage - comes in fast and helps to conceal the fire in one place
Fire Curtain
Masking
Scrim
Technical Director
45. Steel framework that runs above the stage that is used to support the rigging system
TPI
Board of Directors
Gridiron
Trump Ploy
46. Lighting instrument whose name refers to the etched or contoured glass lens
Plaster Line
Fresnel
Upstage
Milliner
47. Loft blocks in Zellerbach Playhouse are __________ for easier access and movement
Smoke Pocket
Overhung
SAFETY
Rocker
48. A performance space in which the audience sits all around the stage; sometimes called in-the-round
Producer
Fly loft
Arena Stage
Cove
49. (Seating) entering & exiting at extreme ends; Zellerbach Playhouse is like this
Gridiron
Gobo
Center Line
ontinental Seating
50. 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.
Vomitorium
Center Line
Perspective Scenery
Downstage