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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. Directions from the actor's point of view
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Arena Stage
Channels
Stage Directions
2. (Seating) entering & exiting at extreme ends; Zellerbach Playhouse is like this
Milliner
Board of Directors
Overhung
ontinental Seating
3. Underneath the stage where things are stored (like ERS' or Fresnels and seats)
Trap room
Elevation
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Asbestos
4. Two instruments - same circuit
Proscenium Stage
Two Fer
Offstage
SAFETY
5. Makes shoes
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Stand pipe
Trap room
TPI
6. Hanging cloth used as a blind - especially for a window
Drop
Gobo
Platform
Drapery
7. First rules of safety in theater
Rails & Styles
Section View
Voltage
Look - listen - and learn
8. Front part or area of the stage extending past the main act curtain; also called lip
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Drop
Apron
9. Levels of intensity
Dimmers
Pipe weight
Cyclorama
Director
10. The purchase (hand) line runs through the __________ so it can be secured in place.
Downstage
Fly Space
FOH: Front of House
Locking rail
11. Also called the main drape - the grand curtain - or the main rag; the one that has to open for the show to start
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
short short - short - center - long - long long
Grand Drape
Loading Dock
12. To use a fire extinguish (acronym)
Apron
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Head block
Gobo
13. Teeth per inch (razors/blades) - fewer for softer wood - more cuts through metal (unforgiving)
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
TPI
Vomitorium
14. Underneath the stage where things are stored (like ERS' or Fresnels and seats)
Stand pipe
Platforms
FOH: Front of House
Trap room
15. Designer that usually determines the color of the show
Scenic Designer
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Proscenium Stage
Cues
16. A hose connection for a fire hose
Loading Dock
Stand pipe
Scenic Designer
ontinental Seating
17. Teeth per inch (razors/blades) - fewer for softer wood - more cuts through metal (unforgiving)
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Channels
TPI
short short - short - center - long - long long
18. A platform where pig irons are loaded onto or off of arbors
Gridiron
Loading Dock
Fire Curtain
Trump Ploy
19. Also known as legs - flats or curtains at the extreme right and left of stage
Center Line
Fly Space
Tormentors
Section View
20. An imaginary line running from the front to the back of the stage through the exact center of the proscenium arch
Source 4 ERS
Batten Clamp
Stage Directions
Center Line
21. A theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
Ground Plan
Loading Dock
Upstage
Thrust Stage
22. (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
Thrust Stage
FOH: Front of House
Actual vs. Nominal
Milliner
23. Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Director
SAFETY
Milliner
24. Anything and everything in lobby - downstage from proscenium
SAFETY
Front of House (FOH)
ontinental Seating
Milliner
25. Large portables pieces of the stage setting
Set Pieces
Black Box
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
26. Painted boards that the scenic designer uses to communicate with the scenic artist
Fresnel
Asbestos
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
olor Elevations
27. Everything hands on - the person who figures out how the set will be built and then oversees construction - works closest with Scenic Director
Technical Director
Borders
Milliner
Locking rail
28. What is anything downstage from the plaster line in a proscenium house?
FOH: Front of House
Director
Locking rail
Vomitorium
29. Concierge - takes care of everyone - handles contracts
Loading Dock
Company Manager
Stage Directions
Gussets
30. A hose connection for a fire hose
Cyclorama
Crossover
Stand pipe
Cyclorama
31. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Crossover
Cyclorama
Elevation
Downstage
32. What is anything downstage from the plaster line in a proscenium house?
Artistic Director
Ground Plan
Voltage
FOH: Front of House
33. 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
Company Manager
Section View
Scrim
Director
34. What type of stage is Zellerbach playhouse?
Proscenium Stage
Milliner
Section View
Downstage
35. The area onstage furthest away from the audience
Grand Drape
Overhung
Borders
Upstage
36. Two instruments - same circuit
Two Fer
Company Manager
Tormentors
Flats
37. Pressure
Overhung
Platform
Crossover
Voltage
38. 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)
Arena Stage
Elevation
Technical Director
39. 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
Cues
Channels
Overhung
Cyclorama
40. 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
Offstage
Ground Plan
Board of Directors
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
41. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Asbestos
Source 4 ERS
Center Line
Fire Curtain
42. Flat view of area if cut or sliced - like a dissection and see inner workings of multiple levels
Rake
Section View
Trump Ploy
Asbestos
43. A metal cutout that is placed in front of the lens of a lighting instrument to create different shadowed images on stage
Board of Directors
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Perspective Scenery
Gobo
44. Flat view of area from a direction (north - south - east - west and in between)
Plaster Line
Stage Directions
Elevation
Thrust Stage
45. A stage area out of sight of the audience
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Circuit
Offstage
short short - short - center - long - long long
46. An imaginary line running from the front to the back of the stage through the exact center of the proscenium arch
Center Line
Rails & Styles
Offstage
Scenic Designer
47. Scenic term - deceiving the eye: from far away looks real but close it's just tricky talent
Trump Ploy
Batten Clamp
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Actual vs. Nominal
48. 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
Black Box
Cues
Proscenium Stage
Thrust Stage
49. Reinforcers that joints in wood and metal - anything that connects (Keystone - corner block - anything that bridges two pieces together )
Smoke Pocket
Gridiron
Gussets
Artistic Director
50. (Walls) - Flat pieces of theatrical scenery which are painted and positioned on stage so as to give the appearance of buildings or other background
Dimmers
Flats
TPI
Gobo