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Stagecraft Basics
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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. 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
Trap room
Dramaturg
Channels
Borders
2. Six steps to hang a light (fresnel or ellipsoidals)
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Wings
Grand Drape
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
3. 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
Wings
Scrim
Fly Space
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
4. Two instruments - same circuit
Trap room
Pipe weight
Drop
Two Fer
5. Six steps to hang a light (fresnel or ellipsoidals)
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
ontinental Seating
Section View
TPI
6. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Stage Manager
Ground Plan
short short - short - center - long - long long
Crossover
7. First rules of safety in theater
Flats
Look - listen - and learn
Trump Ploy
Board of Directors
8. Creates a visual home for the play on stage - setting (color)
Channels
Scenic Director
Upstage
Crossover
9. Plug in wall
Lighting Designer
Circuit
Drapery
Lighting Designer
10. Steel framework that runs above the stage that is used to support the rigging system
Masking
Gridiron
Channels
Plaster Line
11. Final artistic choices go to
Fusible links
Director
Scenic Designer
Lighting Designer
12. Final artistic choices go to
Stage Manager
Director
Fire Curtain
Artistic Director
13. Also known as legs - flats or curtains at the extreme right and left of stage
Tormentors
Scenic Designer
Cues
Rake
14. Anything and everything in lobby - downstage from proscenium
Dramaturg
Arena Stage
Cues
Front of House (FOH)
15. (Walls) - Flat pieces of theatrical scenery which are painted and positioned on stage so as to give the appearance of buildings or other background
Flats
Front of House (FOH)
Loading Dock
Channels
16. Plug in wall
Asbestos
Circuit
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Center Line
17. Everything hands on - the person who figures out how the set will be built and then oversees construction - works closest with Scenic Director
olor Elevations
Technical Director
Scenic Director
Cove
18. Correct order of a 5 line system pipe
Dimmers
ontinental Seating
Apron
short short - short - center - long - long long
19. According to what do lighting designers arrange their light plots - allowing them to follow a 'map' of the plot
Drop
Fire Curtain
Channels
Scenic Director
20. Concierge - takes care of everyone - handles contracts
Pit
Company Manager
Vomitorium
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
21. Stage weights that remain on arbor when there are no scenery or lights attached
Pipe weight
Producer
Head block
Trump Ploy
22. What type of stage is Zellerbach playhouse?
Proscenium Stage
Front of House (FOH)
Rails & Styles
Tormentors
23. 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
Scenic Designer
Borders
Stage Manager
Actual vs. Nominal
24. To use a fire extinguish (acronym)
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Locking rail
Drapery
Two Fer
25. A curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies
Dimmers
TPI
Drop
Director
26. First rules of safety in theater
Voltage
Pit
Look - listen - and learn
Locking rail
27. A metal cutout that is placed in front of the lens of a lighting instrument to create different shadowed images on stage
Batten Clamp
Loading Dock
Gobo
TPI
28. Lighting position: anti-pro - or anti-proscenium
Cove
Master Electrician/Electrician
Plaster Line
Borders
29. Reinforcers that joints in wood and metal - anything that connects (Keystone - corner block - anything that bridges two pieces together )
Board of Directors
Plaster Line
Crossover
Gussets
30. A curtain that travels up and down inside a guide; fire curtain track
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Smoke Pocket
Milliner
Loft Block
31. What kind of pipe batten does Zellerbach use/order?
Scrim
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Scenic Designer
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
32. Underneath the stage where things are stored (like ERS' or Fresnels and seats)
Trap room
TPI
Catwalk
Arena Stage
33. Reinforcers that joints in wood and metal - anything that connects (Keystone - corner block - anything that bridges two pieces together )
Tormentors
Fly loft
Scrim
Gussets
34. Concierge - takes care of everyone - handles contracts
Company Manager
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Locking rail
Cues
35. A metal cutout that is placed in front of the lens of a lighting instrument to create different shadowed images on stage
Gobo
Head block
Rocker
Production Manager
36. Main wheel at the top of the counterweight arbor system
Head block
Wings
Upstage
Platform
37. Painted set on the ground which the actors stand on
Proscenium Stage
Platform
Drapery
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
38. An imaginary line running from the front to the back of the stage through the exact center of the proscenium arch
Overhung
Stage Manager
Source 4 ERS
Center Line
39. Correct order of a 5 line system pipe
Drapery
short short - short - center - long - long long
Circuit
Trap room
40. Directions from the actor's point of view
Stage Directions
Drapery
Cues
Artistic Director
41. Pressure
Voltage
Milliner
Rake
Downstage
42. Imaginary line from one side of the proscenium opening tot he other - divides apron from the stage floor.
Dramaturg
Gridiron
Loft Block
Plaster Line
43. A system of rigging and ropes that is used to raise and lower scenery within on stage - operated by hand or mechanically from backstage.
Asbestos
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Voltage
Plaster Line
44. What type of stage is Zellerbach playhouse?
Loading Dock
Proscenium Stage
Fusible links
Drapery
45. Scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen
Masking
Stage Manager
Head block
Stage Manager
46. Scenic term - deceiving the eye: from far away looks real but close it's just tricky talent
Cyclorama
Trump Ploy
Trap room
Rake
47. Makes shoes
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Gobo
Channels
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
48. Also known as legs - flats or curtains at the extreme right and left of stage
Board of Directors
Lighting Designer
Locking rail
Tormentors
49. Also called the main drape - the grand curtain - or the main rag; the one that has to open for the show to start
Fusible links
Gobo
Platforms
Grand Drape
50. Teeth per inch (razors/blades) - fewer for softer wood - more cuts through metal (unforgiving)
TPI
Stage Directions
Locking rail
Overhung