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Stagecraft Basics
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Study First
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. First rules of safety in theater
Thrust Stage
Black Box
Loading Dock
Look - listen - and learn
2. To use a fire extinguish (acronym)
Artistic Director
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Proscenium Stage
3. Lighting instrument whose name refers to the etched or contoured glass lens
Fresnel
Proscenium Stage
Platform
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
4. (Framing) - Rails (shorter) always caps a style (long)
Producer
Fire Curtain
Rails & Styles
Channels
5. A theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
Gobo
Actual vs. Nominal
Scenic Director
Thrust Stage
6. First rules of safety in theater
Arena Stage
Gridiron
Scenic Designer
Look - listen - and learn
7. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Upstage
Source 4 ERS
Stage Manager
Channels
8. Space above the stage - Space above the stage where scenery may be lifted out of sight by means of ropes and pulleys
short short - short - center - long - long long
Tormentors
Two Fer
Fly loft
9. A curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies
Drop
Locking rail
Voltage
Fusible links
10. Everything hands on - the person who figures out how the set will be built and then oversees construction - works closest with Scenic Director
Dramaturg
Circuit
Upstage
Technical Director
11. A metal cutout that is placed in front of the lens of a lighting instrument to create different shadowed images on stage
Downstage
Gobo
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Pit
12. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Vomitorium
Crossover
short short - short - center - long - long long
Loft Block
13. A performance space in which the audience sits all around the stage; sometimes called in-the-round
Trump Ploy
Arena Stage
Head block
Proscenium Stage
14. Most effective device for controlling a fire in the theatre - or any building
Pipe weight
Sprinkling system
Rocker
Channels
15. Figures out place - theme of season and has final say
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Director
Artistic Director
Channels
16. Pressure
Voltage
Producer
Asbestos
Gel
17. Made up of dimmers - map of plot
Rake
Gobo
Channels
Gridiron
18. 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
Loft Block
Apron
Black Box
Fly loft
19. Main wheel at the top of the counterweight arbor system
Source 4 ERS
Drapery
Head block
Cove
20. To use a fire extinguish (acronym)
Catwalk
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Drapery
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
21. Helps to protect the audience from fires that happen on stage - comes in fast and helps to conceal the fire in one place
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Look - listen - and learn
Fire Curtain
22. (Walls) - Flat pieces of theatrical scenery which are painted and positioned on stage so as to give the appearance of buildings or other background
Set Pieces
Stand pipe
Dimmers
Flats
23. 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
Fly Space
Perspective Scenery
Upstage
Board of Directors
24. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Crossover
Milliner
Fusible links
Batten Clamp
25. The person who finds the financial investors - hires the director and production staff - sets the budget - and pays the bills for a theatrical production
Drop
Set Pieces
Upstage
Producer
26. Plug in wall
Actual vs. Nominal
Scrim
Circuit
Perspective Scenery
27. Loft blocks in Zellerbach Playhouse are __________ for easier access and movement
Overhung
Rake
Lighting Designer
Black Box
28. 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
Thrust Stage
Catwalk
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Cyclorama
29. Connection between pipe batten and lift lines - before trim chain.
Board of Directors
Batten Clamp
Wings
Circuit
30. Reinforcers that joints in wood and metal - anything that connects (Keystone - corner block - anything that bridges two pieces together )
Producer
Gussets
Stand pipe
Rake
31. Lighting instrument whose name refers to the etched or contoured glass lens
Pipe weight
Fresnel
Thrust Stage
Fly loft
32. The area onstage furthest away from the audience
Cyclorama
Grand Drape
Upstage
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
33. Connection between pipe batten and lift lines - before trim chain.
Milliner
Apron
Smoke Pocket
Batten Clamp
34. Directions from the actor's point of view
Batten Clamp
Masking
Stage Directions
Scrim
35. 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.
Vomitorium
Apron
Two Fer
Rails & Styles
36. Loft blocks in Zellerbach Playhouse are __________ for easier access and movement
Cove
Production Manager
Overhung
Circuit
37. Grainer
Director
Center Line
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Rocker
38. Reinforcers that joints in wood and metal - anything that connects (Keystone - corner block - anything that bridges two pieces together )
Crossover
Thrust Stage
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Gussets
39. First rule of any work done in theatre space or shop
SAFETY
Gel
Upstage
Flats
40. An imaginary line running from the front to the back of the stage through the exact center of the proscenium arch
Center Line
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Two Fer
Rocker
41. One that makes - trims - designs hats; also sometimes handles accessories
Ground Plan
Milliner
Pipe weight
Scenic Director
42. Helps to protect the audience from fires that happen on stage - comes in fast and helps to conceal the fire in one place
Artistic Director
Fire Curtain
FOH: Front of House
Stage Directions
43. 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)
Artistic Director
Upstage
Company Manager
44. Any incline of audience or stage.
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Rake
Dramaturg
Rocker
45. A narrow - elevated walkway above the stage or the house or stage where crew members might access lights or flown scenery
Asbestos
Circuit
Catwalk
Fusible links
46. Scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen
Ground Plan
Overhung
Rake
Masking
47. The purchase (hand) line runs through the __________ so it can be secured in place.
Fresnel
Flats
Locking rail
Channels
48. One that makes - trims - designs hats; also sometimes handles accessories
Milliner
short short - short - center - long - long long
Gussets
Voltage
49. What is anything downstage from the plaster line in a proscenium house?
FOH: Front of House
Technical Director
olor Elevations
Lighting Designer
50. Makes shoes
Technical Director
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Tormentors