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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. 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
Vomitorium
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Section View
2. Two instruments - same circuit
Fly loft
Two Fer
Pit
Plaster Line
3. Orchestra pit where the band plays
Grand Drape
Board of Directors
Pit
Director
4. Anything and everything in lobby - downstage from proscenium
Look - listen - and learn
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Channels
Front of House (FOH)
5. The person who finds the financial investors - hires the director and production staff - sets the budget - and pays the bills for a theatrical production
Borders
Artistic Director
Trap room
Producer
6. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Channels
Source 4 ERS
Channels
Cyclorama
7. Two instruments - same circuit
Smoke Pocket
Plaster Line
Wings
Two Fer
8. Best friends with Sound Tech in that both work hand in hand - makes everything work (elec) - wires - hangs - plugs & focuses according to Lighting Designer
Thrust Stage
FOH: Front of House
Grand Drape
Master Electrician/Electrician
9. Underneath the stage where things are stored (like ERS' or Fresnels and seats)
Technical Director
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Grand Drape
Trap room
10. (Walls) - Flat pieces of theatrical scenery which are painted and positioned on stage so as to give the appearance of buildings or other background
Board of Directors
Flats
Board of Directors
Platforms
11. A platform where pig irons are loaded onto or off of arbors
Fly Space
short short - short - center - long - long long
Loading Dock
Sprinkling system
12. What is anything downstage from the plaster line in a proscenium house?
Apron
Actual vs. Nominal
Scrim
FOH: Front of House
13. Flat view of area from a direction (north - south - east - west and in between)
TPI
Elevation
Board of Directors
Front of House (FOH)
14. 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)
Stage Manager
TPI
Scenic Director
15. The side areas of the stage - out of view of the audience; the area where the actors wait for their entrances
Wings
Overhung
Tormentors
Black Box
16. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Fusible links
Crossover
Asbestos
Loft Block
17. The part of the stage closest to the audience
Downstage
Cyclorama
Thrust Stage
Fly loft
18. Space above the stage - Space above the stage where scenery may be lifted out of sight by means of ropes and pulleys
Trump Ploy
Fusible links
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Fly loft
19. (Seating) entering & exiting at extreme ends; Zellerbach Playhouse is like this
Stand pipe
Channels
Offstage
ontinental Seating
20. Main wheel at the top of the counterweight arbor system
Scenic Director
Head block
Dimmers
Overhung
21. (Framing) - Rails (shorter) always caps a style (long)
Rails & Styles
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Two Fer
Fly loft
22. Any incline of audience or stage.
Crossover
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Rake
Scenic Designer
23. Area above the stage where scenery - drops - and lights are hung when not in use
Fly Space
Ground Plan
Asbestos
Grand Drape
24. First rule of any work done in theatre space or shop
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Master Electrician/Electrician
SAFETY
25. A thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects
Cyclorama
Loft Block
Gel
Fire Curtain
26. A theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
Trump Ploy
Section View
Platforms
Thrust Stage
27. Lighting position: anti-pro - or anti-proscenium
Cove
Two Fer
Director
Gel
28. Flat view of area if cut or sliced - like a dissection and see inner workings of multiple levels
Section View
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Fresnel
Cove
29. Lighting position: anti-pro - or anti-proscenium
Drapery
Borders
Scenic Director
Cove
30. Lighting instrument whose name refers to the etched or contoured glass lens
Scenic Director
Borders
Trump Ploy
Fresnel
31. What type of stage is Zellerbach playhouse?
Fresnel
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Proscenium Stage
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
32. Hanging cloth used as a blind - especially for a window
Drapery
Elevation
Locking rail
Artistic Director
33. A performance space in which the audience sits all around the stage; sometimes called in-the-round
Arena Stage
Technical Director
Overhung
Masking
34. A performance space in which the audience sits in front of the stage and views as if through a picture frame
Proscenium Stage
Scrim
ontinental Seating
Look - listen - and learn
35. 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
Channels
Board of Directors
Fusible links
Apron
36. Flat view - floor plan of the stage and set (used to scale) - view of area if room came off
Rails & Styles
Channels
Ground Plan
Fly Space
37. Flat view - floor plan of the stage and set (used to scale) - view of area if room came off
Plaster Line
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Ground Plan
Rake
38. Makes shoes
Front of House (FOH)
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Stand pipe
Look - listen - and learn
39. What is anything downstage from the plaster line in a proscenium house?
Company Manager
Trump Ploy
Drapery
FOH: Front of House
40. Set that's on the ground to stand on; painted
Platforms
Apron
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Director
41. 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
Borders
Artistic Director
Perspective Scenery
Scrim
42. First rules of safety in theater
Dimmers
Look - listen - and learn
Company Manager
Proscenium Stage
43. A theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
Thrust Stage
Gobo
Vomitorium
Offstage
44. Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
Loft Block
Arena Stage
Director
Rails & Styles
45. Any incline of audience or stage.
Overhung
short short - short - center - long - long long
Rake
Elevation
46. 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
Pipe weight
Rails & Styles
Sprinkling system
47. A platform where pig irons are loaded onto or off of arbors
Gel
Overhung
Loading Dock
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
48. Orchestra pit where the band plays
Gobo
Perspective Scenery
Pit
Fusible links
49. Designer that usually determines the color of the show
Tormentors
Stage Directions
Scenic Designer
Pit
50. Metal connectors that holds the fire curtain in the air
Vomitorium
Production Manager
Vomitorium
Fusible links