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Stagecraft Basics
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. (sizes of wood) 2 x 4 (nominal) > first milled - then changes because of shaving ... actual is 1.5 x 3.5 - for this class know 2x4 - 1x3 - 4x4... within that range
Center Line
Company Manager
Actual vs. Nominal
Downstage
2. 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
short short - short - center - long - long long
Stage Manager
ontinental Seating
Thrust Stage
3. 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
Front of House (FOH)
Ground Plan
Cyclorama
Ground Plan
4. The area onstage furthest away from the audience
Upstage
Offstage
Borders
Master Electrician/Electrician
5. A theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
Catwalk
Fly loft
Thrust Stage
Cyclorama
6. 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
Stage Manager
Rake
Board of Directors
Arena Stage
7. Fire curtain used to be called this
Asbestos
Drapery
Plaster Line
Overhung
8. Scenic term - deceiving the eye: from far away looks real but close it's just tricky talent
Producer
Trump Ploy
Gridiron
Rake
9. Painted boards that the scenic designer uses to communicate with the scenic artist
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Crossover
olor Elevations
Catwalk
10. Made of plastic or vinyl - can project lights and images from front or back of them.
Voltage
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Drop
Stage Directions
11. The person who finds the financial investors - hires the director and production staff - sets the budget - and pays the bills for a theatrical production
Producer
Cues
Voltage
Arena Stage
12. What is anything downstage from the plaster line in a proscenium house?
Circuit
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Proscenium Stage
FOH: Front of House
13. Stage weights that remain on arbor when there are no scenery or lights attached
Section View
olor Elevations
Pipe weight
Artistic Director
14. A metal cutout that is placed in front of the lens of a lighting instrument to create different shadowed images on stage
Gobo
Dimmers
Technical Director
Catwalk
15. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Source 4 ERS
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Master Electrician/Electrician
Cues
16. Everything hands on - the person who figures out how the set will be built and then oversees construction - works closest with Scenic Director
Fire Curtain
Technical Director
olor Elevations
Head block
17. Teeth per inch (razors/blades) - fewer for softer wood - more cuts through metal (unforgiving)
Platforms
Scrim
TPI
Stand pipe
18. A curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies
Thrust Stage
Fire Curtain
Drop
Gobo
19. Loft blocks in Zellerbach Playhouse are __________ for easier access and movement
Overhung
Channels
Trap room
Plaster Line
20. Lighting position: anti-pro - or anti-proscenium
Cove
Channels
Scenic Director
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
21. A platform where pig irons are loaded onto or off of arbors
Proscenium Stage
Loading Dock
Rails & Styles
Fusible links
22. Steel framework that runs above the stage that is used to support the rigging system
Gussets
Batten Clamp
Actual vs. Nominal
Gridiron
23. One who works in the theatre as a resource for the history of plays and dramatic literature. They research - study - write - and often teach this material to others
Dramaturg
Channels
Producer
Fly Space
24. Directions from the actor's point of view
Masking
TPI
Stage Directions
Set Pieces
25. 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
Fusible links
Black Box
olor Elevations
Cues
26. Reinforcers that joints in wood and metal - anything that connects (Keystone - corner block - anything that bridges two pieces together )
Masking
Gussets
Plaster Line
Arena Stage
27. Concierge - takes care of everyone - handles contracts
Fusible links
Company Manager
Flats
Elevation
28. The side areas of the stage - out of view of the audience; the area where the actors wait for their entrances
Scenic Designer
Borders
Wings
Stage Manager
29. Teeth per inch (razors/blades) - fewer for softer wood - more cuts through metal (unforgiving)
Locking rail
Cues
TPI
Cyclorama
30. Set that's on the ground to stand on; painted
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Platforms
Company Manager
Channels
31. A system of rigging and ropes that is used to raise and lower scenery within on stage - operated by hand or mechanically from backstage.
Downstage
Platform
Locking rail
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
32. Made up of dimmers - map of plot
Channels
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Thrust Stage
FOH: Front of House
33. 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
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Crossover
Two Fer
Scrim
34. A performance space in which the audience sits all around the stage; sometimes called in-the-round
Arena Stage
Lighting Designer
SAFETY
Producer
35. Made of channels - A visual or aural signal that indicates the beginning of an action - line of dialogue - or piece of music
Cues
Loading Dock
Channels
Trap room
36. Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
Set Pieces
Locking rail
Fire Curtain
Director
37. (Walls) - Flat pieces of theatrical scenery which are painted and positioned on stage so as to give the appearance of buildings or other background
Cues
Flats
Trump Ploy
Master Electrician/Electrician
38. Six steps to hang a light (fresnel or ellipsoidals)
Section View
Masking
Scenic Director
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
39. Scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen
Board of Directors
Set Pieces
Fly Space
Masking
40. Levels of intensity
Tormentors
Dimmers
TPI
Thrust Stage
41. (sizes of wood) 2 x 4 (nominal) > first milled - then changes because of shaving ... actual is 1.5 x 3.5 - for this class know 2x4 - 1x3 - 4x4... within that range
Actual vs. Nominal
Dimmers
Wings
SAFETY
42. Large portables pieces of the stage setting
Trump Ploy
Milliner
Set Pieces
Rocker
43. The person who finds the financial investors - hires the director and production staff - sets the budget - and pays the bills for a theatrical production
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Producer
Fly Space
Section View
44. Anything and everything in lobby - downstage from proscenium
Platform
Scenic Designer
Batten Clamp
Front of House (FOH)
45. Flat view of area if cut or sliced - like a dissection and see inner workings of multiple levels
Director
Section View
Fire Curtain
Look - listen - and learn
46. Any incline of audience or stage.
Fusible links
Rake
Loft Block
Grand Drape
47. 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
Two Fer
Scrim
Platform
Stage Manager
48. The area onstage furthest away from the audience
SAFETY
Scenic Director
Upstage
Fly loft
49. The part of the stage closest to the audience
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Downstage
Masking
Gussets
50. Flat view of area if cut or sliced - like a dissection and see inner workings of multiple levels
Upstage
Section View
Flats
Stand pipe
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