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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. Main wheel at the top of the counterweight arbor system
Apron
Channels
Head block
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
2. Front part or area of the stage extending past the main act curtain; also called lip
Director
Apron
Drapery
Two Fer
3. Pressure
Voltage
olor Elevations
Tormentors
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
4. Steel framework that runs above the stage that is used to support the rigging system
Rails & Styles
Fly Space
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Gridiron
5. Directions from the actor's point of view
Channels
Section View
Stage Directions
Fly loft
6. Makes shoes
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Fly loft
Pit
Arena Stage
7. First rule of any work done in theatre space or shop
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Pipe weight
Apron
SAFETY
8. A performance space in which the audience sits in front of the stage and views as if through a picture frame
Proscenium Stage
Fire Curtain
Actual vs. Nominal
Perspective Scenery
9. Designer that usually determines the color of the show
Scenic Designer
Wings
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Borders
10. A platform where pig irons are loaded onto or off of arbors
Loading Dock
Drapery
Dimmers
Stand pipe
11. What type of stage is Zellerbach playhouse?
Stand pipe
Head block
Drop
Proscenium Stage
12. Area above the stage where scenery - drops - and lights are hung when not in use
Fly Space
Channels
short short - short - center - long - long long
Sprinkling system
13. 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
Dramaturg
Arena Stage
Scenic Director
Upstage
14. To use a fire extinguish (acronym)
Tormentors
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Gussets
Borders
15. A curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies
Drop
Production Manager
Dimmers
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
16. A hose connection for a fire hose
Stand pipe
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
short short - short - center - long - long long
Perspective Scenery
17. Connection between pipe batten and lift lines - before trim chain.
Smoke Pocket
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Overhung
Batten Clamp
18. Most effective device for controlling a fire in the theatre - or any building
Lighting Designer
Look - listen - and learn
Sprinkling system
ontinental Seating
19. Grainer
Pit
Drapery
Rocker
Gridiron
20. 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
Borders
Board of Directors
Asbestos
Proscenium Stage
21. Stage weights that remain on arbor when there are no scenery or lights attached
Cyclorama
Pipe weight
Producer
Lighting Designer
22. According to what do lighting designers arrange their light plots - allowing them to follow a 'map' of the plot
Channels
Black Box
Proscenium Stage
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
23. Plug in wall
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Stage Manager
Vomitorium
Circuit
24. Imaginary line from one side of the proscenium opening tot he other - divides apron from the stage floor.
Plaster Line
Apron
Loft Block
Perspective Scenery
25. Final artistic choices go to
Director
Trap room
Scenic Director
ontinental Seating
26. 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.
olor Elevations
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Pipe weight
Rails & Styles
27. The side areas of the stage - out of view of the audience; the area where the actors wait for their entrances
Wings
Catwalk
Rocker
Cove
28. Best friends with Sound Tech in that both work hand in hand - makes everything work (elec) - wires - hangs - plugs & focuses according to Lighting Designer
Elevation
Cove
Fly Space
Master Electrician/Electrician
29. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Crossover
Source 4 ERS
Pipe weight
Milliner
30. The area onstage furthest away from the audience
Upstage
Fly Space
Front of House (FOH)
Cyclorama
31. Hanging cloth used as a blind - especially for a window
Drapery
Producer
Gobo
Fire Curtain
32. A thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects
Stage Manager
ontinental Seating
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Gel
33. 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
Platform
Circuit
SAFETY
34. Figures out place - theme of season and has final say
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Set Pieces
Artistic Director
Cues
35. Made of channels - A visual or aural signal that indicates the beginning of an action - line of dialogue - or piece of music
Smoke Pocket
Two Fer
Wings
Cues
36. Final artistic choices go to
Flats
Director
Front of House (FOH)
Cues
37. Made of channels - A visual or aural signal that indicates the beginning of an action - line of dialogue - or piece of music
Cues
Front of House (FOH)
Asbestos
Center Line
38. Flat view - floor plan of the stage and set (used to scale) - view of area if room came off
Actual vs. Nominal
Channels
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Ground Plan
39. Everything filters through from Artistic Team - knows budget of time - labor - and money; keeps everyone in communication - conductor/diplomat
Production Manager
Proscenium Stage
ontinental Seating
Platforms
40. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Scenic Director
Channels
Source 4 ERS
Flats
41. Flat view of area from a direction (north - south - east - west and in between)
Scenic Director
Elevation
Milliner
Cues
42. An imaginary line running from the front to the back of the stage through the exact center of the proscenium arch
Actual vs. Nominal
Front of House (FOH)
Elevation
Center Line
43. Flat view of area if cut or sliced - like a dissection and see inner workings of multiple levels
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Smoke Pocket
Actual vs. Nominal
Section View
44. Directions from the actor's point of view
Voltage
Batten Clamp
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Stage Directions
45. A platform where pig irons are loaded onto or off of arbors
Masking
Loading Dock
Center Line
Director
46. Everything filters through from Artistic Team - knows budget of time - labor - and money; keeps everyone in communication - conductor/diplomat
Production Manager
Cove
Head block
Producer
47. The person who finds the financial investors - hires the director and production staff - sets the budget - and pays the bills for a theatrical production
Dramaturg
Downstage
Cove
Producer
48. 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
Masking
Wings
Technical Director
49. Underneath the stage where things are stored (like ERS' or Fresnels and seats)
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Trap room
Cove
Director
50. Two instruments - same circuit
Two Fer
Downstage
Rails & Styles
Fly loft