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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.
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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. A stage area out of sight of the audience
Gussets
Catwalk
Offstage
Gobo
2. Grainer
Cyclorama
Overhung
Rocker
Cues
3. A narrow - elevated walkway above the stage or the house or stage where crew members might access lights or flown scenery
Voltage
Cove
Section View
Catwalk
4. Lighting instrument whose name refers to the etched or contoured glass lens
Offstage
Scrim
Catwalk
Fresnel
5. Figures out place - theme of season and has final say
Masking
Stage Directions
Artistic Director
Asbestos
6. According to what do lighting designers arrange their light plots - allowing them to follow a 'map' of the plot
Borders
Platforms
Drop
Channels
7. Anything and everything in lobby - downstage from proscenium
Rails & Styles
Set Pieces
Borders
Front of House (FOH)
8. Grainer
Trap room
Ground Plan
Center Line
Rocker
9. Pressure
Smoke Pocket
Loading Dock
Voltage
Overhung
10. Also known as legs - flats or curtains at the extreme right and left of stage
Proscenium Stage
Tormentors
Stage Directions
Arena Stage
11. Painted set on the ground which the actors stand on
Platform
Tormentors
Head block
Cove
12. Main wheel at the top of the counterweight arbor system
ontinental Seating
Production Manager
Offstage
Head block
13. The part of the stage closest to the audience
Downstage
Batten Clamp
Stage Manager
short short - short - center - long - long long
14. Everything filters through from Artistic Team - knows budget of time - labor - and money; keeps everyone in communication - conductor/diplomat
Actual vs. Nominal
Smoke Pocket
Master Electrician/Electrician
Production Manager
15. Teeth per inch (razors/blades) - fewer for softer wood - more cuts through metal (unforgiving)
Rocker
TPI
Scenic Director
Plaster Line
16. The side areas of the stage - out of view of the audience; the area where the actors wait for their entrances
Thrust Stage
Scenic Director
Producer
Wings
17. A metal cutout that is placed in front of the lens of a lighting instrument to create different shadowed images on stage
Offstage
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Masking
Gobo
18. Flat view of area from a direction (north - south - east - west and in between)
Elevation
FOH: Front of House
Fresnel
Cyclorama
19. A curtain that travels up and down inside a guide; fire curtain track
Batten Clamp
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Scenic Director
Smoke Pocket
20. Helps to protect the audience from fires that happen on stage - comes in fast and helps to conceal the fire in one place
Thrust Stage
Fire Curtain
Proscenium Stage
Head block
21. 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
Loading Dock
Platform
Two Fer
Borders
22. What kind of pipe batten does Zellerbach use/order?
Voltage
Batten Clamp
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Scenic Director
23. The side areas of the stage - out of view of the audience; the area where the actors wait for their entrances
Wings
Sprinkling system
Fusible links
Black Box
24. The person who finds the financial investors - hires the director and production staff - sets the budget - and pays the bills for a theatrical production
Thrust Stage
Lighting Designer
Downstage
Producer
25. What is anything downstage from the plaster line in a proscenium house?
Pit
Gel
FOH: Front of House
Masking
26. Orchestra pit where the band plays
Cues
Gobo
Pit
Cove
27. One that makes - trims - designs hats; also sometimes handles accessories
Channels
Voltage
SAFETY
Milliner
28. First rule of any work done in theatre space or shop
Elevation
TPI
SAFETY
Channels
29. Loft blocks in Zellerbach Playhouse are __________ for easier access and movement
Front of House (FOH)
Locking rail
Fly loft
Overhung
30. (Framing) - Rails (shorter) always caps a style (long)
Stage Manager
Dramaturg
Rails & Styles
Trap room
31. Lighting instrument whose name refers to the etched or contoured glass lens
Stage Manager
Actual vs. Nominal
Fresnel
Head block
32. Fire curtain used to be called this
Crossover
Asbestos
Rails & Styles
Proscenium Stage
33. The area onstage furthest away from the audience
Upstage
Fire Curtain
Cues
Cyclorama
34. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Source 4 ERS
Cove
Crossover
Drapery
35. Flat view - floor plan of the stage and set (used to scale) - view of area if room came off
Trap room
Front of House (FOH)
Ground Plan
Downstage
36. 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
Source 4 ERS
Director
Proscenium Stage
37. Front part or area of the stage extending past the main act curtain; also called lip
Platforms
Rails & Styles
Flats
Apron
38. Directions from the actor's point of view
Stage Directions
Masking
Upstage
Master Electrician/Electrician
39. Made of plastic or vinyl - can project lights and images from front or back of them.
TPI
Loading Dock
Trap room
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
40. Correct order of a 5 line system pipe
short short - short - center - long - long long
Gridiron
Perspective Scenery
Pit
41. The area onstage furthest away from the audience
Circuit
Flats
Asbestos
Upstage
42. Concierge - takes care of everyone - handles contracts
Loft Block
Black Box
Company Manager
Board of Directors
43. 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
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Fusible links
Trap room
Cyclorama
44. A theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
Vomitorium
Circuit
Thrust Stage
Fire Curtain
45. Makes shoes
Arena Stage
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Elevation
Vomitorium
46. 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)
Center Line
Source 4 ERS
Company Manager
47. Scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen
Drapery
Masking
ontinental Seating
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
48. Scenic term - deceiving the eye: from far away looks real but close it's just tricky talent
Fire Curtain
Fly Space
Trump Ploy
Gridiron
49. What type of stage is Zellerbach playhouse?
olor Elevations
SAFETY
Borders
Proscenium Stage
50. Directions from the actor's point of view
Front of House (FOH)
Stage Directions
Two Fer
Loft Block