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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.
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. A theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
Look - listen - and learn
Scenic Designer
Front of House (FOH)
Thrust Stage
2. One that makes - trims - designs hats; also sometimes handles accessories
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Milliner
Arena Stage
olor Elevations
3. Imaginary line from one side of the proscenium opening tot he other - divides apron from the stage floor.
Plaster Line
Black Box
ontinental Seating
Proscenium Stage
4. 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
Offstage
Black Box
Ground Plan
Stage Manager
5. Also known as legs - flats or curtains at the extreme right and left of stage
Cyclorama
Tormentors
Drop
Apron
6. Made up of dimmers - map of plot
Elevation
Cove
Channels
Plaster Line
7. Any incline of audience or stage.
Head block
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Loading Dock
Rake
8. A performance space in which the audience sits all around the stage; sometimes called in-the-round
Arena Stage
Smoke Pocket
Channels
Fusible links
9. Correct order of a 5 line system pipe
Drop
short short - short - center - long - long long
Trump Ploy
Scrim
10. Connection between pipe batten and lift lines - before trim chain.
Trap room
Producer
Stand pipe
Batten Clamp
11. Scenery that represents three-dimensional space on a flat surface
Rocker
Perspective Scenery
Actual vs. Nominal
Drapery
12. Figures out place - theme of season and has final say
Fly loft
Rake
Artistic Director
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
13. Six steps to hang a light (fresnel or ellipsoidals)
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Stage Manager
TPI
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
14. The person who finds the financial investors - hires the director and production staff - sets the budget - and pays the bills for a theatrical production
Director
Upstage
Platforms
Producer
15. Best friends with Sound Tech in that both work hand in hand - makes everything work (elec) - wires - hangs - plugs & focuses according to Lighting Designer
Master Electrician/Electrician
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Apron
16. A metal cutout that is placed in front of the lens of a lighting instrument to create different shadowed images on stage
Gobo
Gel
Look - listen - and learn
Director
17. First rules of safety in theater
Fly loft
Upstage
Look - listen - and learn
Rake
18. Made of plastic or vinyl - can project lights and images from front or back of them.
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
SAFETY
Producer
Two Fer
19. 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
Cove
Catwalk
Loft Block
Board of Directors
20. Flat view - floor plan of the stage and set (used to scale) - view of area if room came off
Ground Plan
Cyclorama
Drop
Trap room
21. Most effective device for controlling a fire in the theatre - or any building
Two Fer
Scenic Director
Sprinkling system
Board of Directors
22. 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
Stage Directions
Gussets
Downstage
23. Painted set on the ground which the actors stand on
Apron
Voltage
Platform
Masking
24. Anything and everything in lobby - downstage from proscenium
Voltage
Front of House (FOH)
Fly Space
Head block
25. A performance space in which the audience sits all around the stage; sometimes called in-the-round
Asbestos
Lighting Designer
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Arena Stage
26. 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
Borders
FOH: Front of House
Channels
Stage Directions
27. A stage area out of sight of the audience
Stage Directions
Offstage
FOH: Front of House
Stage Manager
28. Two instruments - same circuit
Two Fer
Drapery
Cyclorama
Crossover
29. Hanging cloth used as a blind - especially for a window
Pit
Drapery
Asbestos
Master Electrician/Electrician
30. According to what do lighting designers arrange their light plots - allowing them to follow a 'map' of the plot
Pipe weight
Channels
Tormentors
Stand pipe
31. Makes shoes
Gussets
Sprinkling system
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Smoke Pocket
32. Concierge - takes care of everyone - handles contracts
Production Manager
Apron
Company Manager
Overhung
33. Teeth per inch (razors/blades) - fewer for softer wood - more cuts through metal (unforgiving)
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
TPI
Gobo
Crossover
34. Makes shoes
Vomitorium
Stand pipe
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Locking rail
35. A hose connection for a fire hose
Stand pipe
Elevation
Channels
Two Fer
36. A curtain that travels up and down inside a guide; fire curtain track
Proscenium Stage
short short - short - center - long - long long
Master Electrician/Electrician
Smoke Pocket
37. Directions from the actor's point of view
Stage Manager
Channels
Stage Directions
Flats
38. Scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen
Arena Stage
Channels
Masking
Channels
39. Grainer
Stand pipe
Plaster Line
Locking rail
Rocker
40. (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
Grand Drape
TPI
Crossover
41. (Seating) entering & exiting at extreme ends; Zellerbach Playhouse is like this
olor Elevations
Fresnel
Stage Manager
ontinental Seating
42. A platform where pig irons are loaded onto or off of arbors
Loading Dock
Proscenium Stage
Drop
Gobo
43. What kind of pipe batten does Zellerbach use/order?
Fusible links
Milliner
Gridiron
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
44. Everything filters through from Artistic Team - knows budget of time - labor - and money; keeps everyone in communication - conductor/diplomat
Board of Directors
Production Manager
Board of Directors
Grand Drape
45. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Front of House (FOH)
Arena Stage
Source 4 ERS
Cues
46. 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
Trump Ploy
Section View
Dramaturg
Scrim
47. Scenic term - deceiving the eye: from far away looks real but close it's just tricky talent
Overhung
Fly loft
Section View
Trump Ploy
48. Metal connectors that holds the fire curtain in the air
Drapery
Gridiron
Scrim
Fusible links
49. Flat view - floor plan of the stage and set (used to scale) - view of area if room came off
Platform
short short - short - center - long - long long
Cove
Ground Plan
50. 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
Sprinkling system
Scrim
Source 4 ERS
Actual vs. Nominal