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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. Lighting instrument whose name refers to the etched or contoured glass lens
Perspective Scenery
Fresnel
Head block
Trap room
2. Everything hands on - the person who figures out how the set will be built and then oversees construction - works closest with Scenic Director
Downstage
Technical Director
Rake
Source 4 ERS
3. Makes shoes
Director
Pipe weight
Technical Director
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
4. First rule of any work done in theatre space or shop
SAFETY
Plaster Line
Channels
Channels
5. Painted boards that the scenic designer uses to communicate with the scenic artist
olor Elevations
Plaster Line
Downstage
Stage Directions
6. A system of rigging and ropes that is used to raise and lower scenery within on stage - operated by hand or mechanically from backstage.
Channels
Trap room
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Rocker
7. 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
Platform
Scenic Designer
Look - listen - and learn
Dramaturg
8. 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
Platform
Lighting Designer
Proscenium Stage
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
9. 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
Rake
Drapery
Board of Directors
Center Line
10. 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
Cyclorama
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Director
FOH: Front of House
11. Space above the stage - Space above the stage where scenery may be lifted out of sight by means of ropes and pulleys
Fly loft
Flats
Wings
Batten Clamp
12. Front part or area of the stage extending past the main act curtain; also called lip
Apron
Fusible links
TPI
Thrust Stage
13. Made of plastic or vinyl - can project lights and images from front or back of them.
Stage Directions
Grand Drape
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Tormentors
14. Space above the stage - Space above the stage where scenery may be lifted out of sight by means of ropes and pulleys
TPI
Wings
Upstage
Fly loft
15. Concierge - takes care of everyone - handles contracts
Apron
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Company Manager
Ground Plan
16. What is anything downstage from the plaster line in a proscenium house?
FOH: Front of House
Trump Ploy
Loading Dock
Elevation
17. Also known as legs - flats or curtains at the extreme right and left of stage
Gussets
Channels
Two Fer
Tormentors
18. 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
FOH: Front of House
Sprinkling system
Borders
Loft Block
19. (Seating) entering & exiting at extreme ends; Zellerbach Playhouse is like this
TPI
Rails & Styles
ontinental Seating
Downstage
20. Steel framework that runs above the stage that is used to support the rigging system
Gridiron
Milliner
Upstage
Wings
21. Set that's on the ground to stand on; painted
Platforms
Sprinkling system
Catwalk
Fire Curtain
22. A performance space in which the audience sits all around the stage; sometimes called in-the-round
Source 4 ERS
Arena Stage
Master Electrician/Electrician
Pit
23. A stage area out of sight of the audience
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Company Manager
FOH: Front of House
Offstage
24. A theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
Vomitorium
Arena Stage
Thrust Stage
Tormentors
25. Creates a visual home for the play on stage - setting (color)
Rake
Trap room
Scenic Director
Technical Director
26. Hanging cloth used as a blind - especially for a window
Gridiron
Gussets
Drapery
Perspective Scenery
27. Flat view - floor plan of the stage and set (used to scale) - view of area if room came off
Ground Plan
Two Fer
Grand Drape
SAFETY
28. Helps to protect the audience from fires that happen on stage - comes in fast and helps to conceal the fire in one place
Fire Curtain
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Apron
Arena Stage
29. Everything hands on - the person who figures out how the set will be built and then oversees construction - works closest with Scenic Director
Center Line
Smoke Pocket
Masking
Technical Director
30. Creates a visual home for the play on stage - setting (color)
Loading Dock
Elevation
Scenic Director
Source 4 ERS
31. Flat view of area from a direction (north - south - east - west and in between)
Scrim
Masking
Elevation
Black Box
32. The area onstage furthest away from the audience
Upstage
Front of House (FOH)
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Board of Directors
33. The side areas of the stage - out of view of the audience; the area where the actors wait for their entrances
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Wings
Ground Plan
Circuit
34. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Crossover
Front of House (FOH)
Drop
Voltage
35. What kind of pipe batten does Zellerbach use/order?
Gussets
Board of Directors
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Director
36. According to what do lighting designers arrange their light plots - allowing them to follow a 'map' of the plot
Channels
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Locking rail
Fresnel
37. 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
Scenic Designer
Catwalk
Lighting Designer
Fresnel
38. Six steps to hang a light (fresnel or ellipsoidals)
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Channels
Source 4 ERS
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
39. What type of stage is Zellerbach playhouse?
Scrim
Perspective Scenery
Actual vs. Nominal
Proscenium Stage
40. Levels of intensity
Rails & Styles
Trump Ploy
Dimmers
Fly loft
41. The area onstage furthest away from the audience
Channels
SAFETY
Upstage
Stage Manager
42. Metal connectors that holds the fire curtain in the air
TPI
Two Fer
Fusible links
Elevation
43. Also called the main drape - the grand curtain - or the main rag; the one that has to open for the show to start
Elevation
Grand Drape
Offstage
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
44. Two instruments - same circuit
olor Elevations
Batten Clamp
Two Fer
Pipe weight
45. 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
Lighting Designer
Black Box
Trap room
Rocker
46. Hanging cloth used as a blind - especially for a window
Pipe weight
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Drapery
Upstage
47. Pressure
Company Manager
Proscenium Stage
Gel
Voltage
48. Scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen
Wings
Artistic Director
Masking
Fly loft
49. Scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen
Masking
FOH: Front of House
Grand Drape
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
50. The purchase (hand) line runs through the __________ so it can be secured in place.
Pit
Locking rail
Technical Director
Apron