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Stagecraft Basics
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performing-arts
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1. 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.
Producer
Vomitorium
Fly Space
Company Manager
2. The part of the stage closest to the audience
Front of House (FOH)
Two Fer
Fire Curtain
Downstage
3. Correct order of a 5 line system pipe
Dramaturg
Cove
short short - short - center - long - long long
Dimmers
4. Area above the stage where scenery - drops - and lights are hung when not in use
Fly Space
Technical Director
Ground Plan
Gussets
5. Pressure
Voltage
Crossover
Elevation
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
6. Six steps to hang a light (fresnel or ellipsoidals)
Section View
Director
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Thrust Stage
7. A curtain that travels up and down inside a guide; fire curtain track
Section View
Smoke Pocket
FOH: Front of House
Fly Space
8. Anything and everything in lobby - downstage from proscenium
Front of House (FOH)
Batten Clamp
SAFETY
Wings
9. Stage weights that remain on arbor when there are no scenery or lights attached
Masking
Head block
Pipe weight
Platform
10. A performance space in which the audience sits in front of the stage and views as if through a picture frame
Dimmers
Channels
Overhung
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
Vomitorium
Front of House (FOH)
Crossover
Master Electrician/Electrician
12. Six steps to hang a light (fresnel or ellipsoidals)
Ground Plan
short short - short - center - long - long long
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
olor Elevations
13. Final artistic choices go to
Circuit
Director
Board of Directors
Borders
14. The purchase (hand) line runs through the __________ so it can be secured in place.
Dimmers
Dramaturg
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Locking rail
15. Two instruments - same circuit
Company Manager
Elevation
Two Fer
Source 4 ERS
16. 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
Source 4 ERS
Director
Black Box
Downstage
17. Also called the main drape - the grand curtain - or the main rag; the one that has to open for the show to start
Grand Drape
Stage Directions
Proscenium Stage
Board of Directors
18. Flat view of area if cut or sliced - like a dissection and see inner workings of multiple levels
Fly loft
Section View
Front of House (FOH)
Apron
19. Underneath the stage where things are stored (like ERS' or Fresnels and seats)
Circuit
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Trap room
Upstage
20. A narrow - elevated walkway above the stage or the house or stage where crew members might access lights or flown scenery
Upstage
Catwalk
Scrim
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
21. 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
Overhung
Vomitorium
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Cyclorama
22. First rule of any work done in theatre space or shop
Dimmers
SAFETY
Borders
Loft Block
23. Lighting position: anti-pro - or anti-proscenium
Scenic Designer
Cove
Perspective Scenery
Technical Director
24. According to what do lighting designers arrange their light plots - allowing them to follow a 'map' of the plot
Catwalk
Channels
Borders
Actual vs. Nominal
25. Figures out place - theme of season and has final say
Artistic Director
Crossover
Batten Clamp
Ground Plan
26. Reinforcers that joints in wood and metal - anything that connects (Keystone - corner block - anything that bridges two pieces together )
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Rails & Styles
Trap room
Gussets
27. Underneath the stage where things are stored (like ERS' or Fresnels and seats)
Trap room
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Gussets
Milliner
28. 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
SAFETY
Tormentors
Elevation
Scrim
29. Made up of dimmers - map of plot
Locking rail
Crossover
Channels
Perspective Scenery
30. The area onstage furthest away from the audience
SAFETY
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Upstage
Offstage
31. A metal cutout that is placed in front of the lens of a lighting instrument to create different shadowed images on stage
Center Line
Apron
Milliner
Gobo
32. Anything and everything in lobby - downstage from proscenium
Stage Directions
Front of House (FOH)
Downstage
short short - short - center - long - long long
33. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Source 4 ERS
Pit
Masking
Gel
34. What type of stage is Zellerbach playhouse?
Proscenium Stage
Circuit
Board of Directors
Gussets
35. Scenery that represents three-dimensional space on a flat surface
Section View
Perspective Scenery
Stage Manager
Dramaturg
36. 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
Stage Directions
Stage Manager
Channels
Trap room
37. (Framing) - Rails (shorter) always caps a style (long)
Stand pipe
Thrust Stage
Rails & Styles
Masking
38. Orchestra pit where the band plays
Two Fer
Smoke Pocket
Pit
Overhung
39. Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
Crossover
Proscenium Stage
olor Elevations
Director
40. A metal cutout that is placed in front of the lens of a lighting instrument to create different shadowed images on stage
Drapery
Gel
Gobo
Rails & Styles
41. Large portables pieces of the stage setting
Fly Space
Overhung
Set Pieces
Lighting Designer
42. Painted boards that the scenic designer uses to communicate with the scenic artist
Pipe weight
Director
olor Elevations
FOH: Front of House
43. Area above the stage where scenery - drops - and lights are hung when not in use
Fly Space
TPI
Dramaturg
Stage Directions
44. Designer that usually determines the color of the show
Scenic Designer
Smoke Pocket
Milliner
Center Line
45. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Source 4 ERS
Perspective Scenery
olor Elevations
Gussets
46. What is anything downstage from the plaster line in a proscenium house?
FOH: Front of House
TPI
ontinental Seating
Board of Directors
47. A system of rigging and ropes that is used to raise and lower scenery within on stage - operated by hand or mechanically from backstage.
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Wings
Two Fer
Vomitorium
48. Flat view of area if cut or sliced - like a dissection and see inner workings of multiple levels
Gobo
Scrim
Director
Section View
49. Directions from the actor's point of view
Artistic Director
Platform
Stage Directions
Dramaturg
50. 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
Lighting Designer
Director
Fresnel
Drapery
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