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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. Space above the stage - Space above the stage where scenery may be lifted out of sight by means of ropes and pulleys
Lighting Designer
Smoke Pocket
Fly loft
Loft Block
2. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Wings
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Source 4 ERS
Drapery
3. Concierge - takes care of everyone - handles contracts
Company Manager
Pit
SAFETY
Fly Space
4. Hanging cloth used as a blind - especially for a window
Platform
Drapery
Platforms
Upstage
5. Flat view of area if cut or sliced - like a dissection and see inner workings of multiple levels
Gel
Gobo
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Section View
6. What type of stage is Zellerbach playhouse?
Ground Plan
Actual vs. Nominal
Proscenium Stage
Cove
7. Everything filters through from Artistic Team - knows budget of time - labor - and money; keeps everyone in communication - conductor/diplomat
ontinental Seating
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Scenic Director
Production Manager
8. A platform where pig irons are loaded onto or off of arbors
Borders
Loading Dock
Ground Plan
Flats
9. To use a fire extinguish (acronym)
SAFETY
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Stand pipe
10. Scenic term - deceiving the eye: from far away looks real but close it's just tricky talent
Director
FOH: Front of House
Trump Ploy
Stage Directions
11. 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
Asbestos
Elevation
Fly loft
12. (Seating) entering & exiting at extreme ends; Zellerbach Playhouse is like this
Fusible links
ontinental Seating
short short - short - center - long - long long
Look - listen - and learn
13. The side areas of the stage - out of view of the audience; the area where the actors wait for their entrances
Crossover
Arena Stage
Board of Directors
Wings
14. Lighting position: anti-pro - or anti-proscenium
Cove
Company Manager
Scrim
Actual vs. Nominal
15. 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
Black Box
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Gussets
16. Most effective device for controlling a fire in the theatre - or any building
Borders
Sprinkling system
Channels
Scenic Director
17. Space above the stage - Space above the stage where scenery may be lifted out of sight by means of ropes and pulleys
Stage Manager
Fly loft
Pit
Cyclorama
18. Orchestra pit where the band plays
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Pit
Wings
Master Electrician/Electrician
19. Painted boards that the scenic designer uses to communicate with the scenic artist
olor Elevations
SAFETY
Channels
Borders
20. Scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen
ontinental Seating
Trump Ploy
Director
Masking
21. Best friends with Sound Tech in that both work hand in hand - makes everything work (elec) - wires - hangs - plugs & focuses according to Lighting Designer
Masking
Platforms
Master Electrician/Electrician
Ground Plan
22. Made of channels - A visual or aural signal that indicates the beginning of an action - line of dialogue - or piece of music
Production Manager
Cove
Cues
Loading Dock
23. Reinforcers that joints in wood and metal - anything that connects (Keystone - corner block - anything that bridges two pieces together )
Trump Ploy
Dramaturg
Stage Directions
Gussets
24. Painted set on the ground which the actors stand on
Locking rail
Pipe weight
Platform
Smoke Pocket
25. Underneath the stage where things are stored (like ERS' or Fresnels and seats)
Gussets
Scrim
Trap room
Proscenium Stage
26. Six steps to hang a light (fresnel or ellipsoidals)
Board of Directors
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Masking
Cues
27. Made up of dimmers - map of plot
Proscenium Stage
Channels
Pipe weight
Gel
28. Plug in wall
Upstage
Proscenium Stage
Circuit
Flats
29. What kind of pipe batten does Zellerbach use/order?
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Platforms
Gussets
Plaster Line
30. Directions from the actor's point of view
Rocker
Sprinkling system
Stage Directions
Production Manager
31. Connection between pipe batten and lift lines - before trim chain.
Front of House (FOH)
Stage Manager
Batten Clamp
Borders
32. Connection between pipe batten and lift lines - before trim chain.
Batten Clamp
Drapery
Company Manager
Fusible links
33. Directions from the actor's point of view
Stage Directions
Company Manager
Overhung
Offstage
34. A stage area out of sight of the audience
ontinental Seating
Cues
Platforms
Offstage
35. 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
Loading Dock
ontinental Seating
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
36. The side areas of the stage - out of view of the audience; the area where the actors wait for their entrances
Wings
Two Fer
Channels
Production Manager
37. A narrow - elevated walkway above the stage or the house or stage where crew members might access lights or flown scenery
Trump Ploy
Rake
Catwalk
Fly Space
38. 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
Masking
Overhung
Cues
Borders
39. A curtain that travels up and down inside a guide; fire curtain track
Smoke Pocket
Gobo
Center Line
Technical Director
40. A theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
Tormentors
Thrust Stage
Dramaturg
Crossover
41. 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
Technical Director
Trap room
Source 4 ERS
Cyclorama
42. According to what do lighting designers arrange their light plots - allowing them to follow a 'map' of the plot
Producer
Channels
Upstage
Thrust Stage
43. Made up of dimmers - map of plot
olor Elevations
SAFETY
Trap room
Channels
44. Metal connectors that holds the fire curtain in the air
Rake
Fusible links
Fly Space
Director
45. Area above the stage where scenery - drops - and lights are hung when not in use
Fly Space
Director
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Wings
46. One that makes - trims - designs hats; also sometimes handles accessories
Plaster Line
Plaster Line
Drop
Milliner
47. A theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
Platform
Thrust Stage
Trap room
SAFETY
48. 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
Fusible links
Set Pieces
Sprinkling system
Lighting Designer
49. Concierge - takes care of everyone - handles contracts
Company Manager
Director
Proscenium Stage
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
50. Underneath the stage where things are stored (like ERS' or Fresnels and seats)
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Trap room
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
FOH: Front of House