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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. What is anything downstage from the plaster line in a proscenium house?
FOH: Front of House
Masking
Overhung
Proscenium Stage
2. Main wheel at the top of the counterweight arbor system
Dramaturg
Head block
Downstage
Director
3. Directions from the actor's point of view
Artistic Director
Borders
Stage Directions
Look - listen - and learn
4. Six steps to hang a light (fresnel or ellipsoidals)
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Voltage
Elevation
Elevation
5. (Framing) - Rails (shorter) always caps a style (long)
Offstage
Rails & Styles
Wings
Master Electrician/Electrician
6. (Walls) - Flat pieces of theatrical scenery which are painted and positioned on stage so as to give the appearance of buildings or other background
Borders
Flats
Channels
Milliner
7. Creates a visual home for the play on stage - setting (color)
Lighting Designer
Downstage
Offstage
Scenic Director
8. To use a fire extinguish (acronym)
Stage Directions
Fly loft
Pipe weight
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
9. First rules of safety in theater
Look - listen - and learn
Fusible links
Vomitorium
Borders
10. Large portables pieces of the stage setting
Set Pieces
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Gridiron
Gobo
11. Levels of intensity
Dimmers
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Masking
Tormentors
12. Space above the stage - Space above the stage where scenery may be lifted out of sight by means of ropes and pulleys
Head block
Scenic Director
Fly loft
Smoke Pocket
13. Any incline of audience or stage.
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Fly Space
Rake
Cove
14. Steel framework that runs above the stage that is used to support the rigging system
Producer
Batten Clamp
Gridiron
Wings
15. A curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies
Director
Drop
Catwalk
Platform
16. What is anything downstage from the plaster line in a proscenium house?
Stage Manager
FOH: Front of House
Scenic Director
Producer
17. 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)
Proscenium Stage
Crossover
Rails & Styles
18. Everything filters through from Artistic Team - knows budget of time - labor - and money; keeps everyone in communication - conductor/diplomat
Production Manager
Asbestos
Milliner
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
19. Painted boards that the scenic designer uses to communicate with the scenic artist
Gridiron
Grand Drape
olor Elevations
Source 4 ERS
20. Any incline of audience or stage.
Director
Fusible links
Gobo
Rake
21. Anything and everything in lobby - downstage from proscenium
Front of House (FOH)
Cove
Master Electrician/Electrician
Trump Ploy
22. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Source 4 ERS
Elevation
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
short short - short - center - long - long long
23. Makes shoes
Proscenium Stage
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Cyclorama
Thrust Stage
24. Also known as legs - flats or curtains at the extreme right and left of stage
Stage Manager
Cues
Tormentors
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
25. Pressure
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Voltage
SAFETY
Director
26. What type of stage is Zellerbach playhouse?
Thrust Stage
Proscenium Stage
Drapery
Masking
27. Plug in wall
Crossover
Circuit
Stage Directions
Fresnel
28. Mounted to the gridiron or support steel that supports and changes the direction of a lift line rope between the load and the head block
Lighting Designer
Gel
Loft Block
Master Electrician/Electrician
29. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Stage Manager
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Source 4 ERS
Thrust Stage
30. A performance space in which the audience sits all around the stage; sometimes called in-the-round
Front of House (FOH)
Arena Stage
Section View
Crossover
31. Stage weights that remain on arbor when there are no scenery or lights attached
Gel
Dramaturg
Downstage
Pipe weight
32. A stage area out of sight of the audience
Offstage
Downstage
Stand pipe
Cyclorama
33. Imaginary line from one side of the proscenium opening tot he other - divides apron from the stage floor.
Fire Curtain
Director
Board of Directors
Plaster Line
34. (Seating) entering & exiting at extreme ends; Zellerbach Playhouse is like this
Pipe weight
Wings
ontinental Seating
Milliner
35. A hose connection for a fire hose
Stage Directions
Front of House (FOH)
Stand pipe
Fire Curtain
36. A narrow - elevated walkway above the stage or the house or stage where crew members might access lights or flown scenery
Black Box
Proscenium Stage
Catwalk
Technical Director
37. Levels of intensity
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Dimmers
Scrim
Fusible links
38. The area onstage furthest away from the audience
Upstage
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Artistic Director
39. Hanging cloth used as a blind - especially for a window
Apron
Rocker
Actual vs. Nominal
Drapery
40. A stage area out of sight of the audience
Section View
Masking
Locking rail
Offstage
41. Connection between pipe batten and lift lines - before trim chain.
Drop
Batten Clamp
Overhung
Black Box
42. Orchestra pit where the band plays
Downstage
Pit
Production Manager
Gobo
43. Six steps to hang a light (fresnel or ellipsoidals)
Downstage
Batten Clamp
Loading Dock
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
44. Also called the main drape - the grand curtain - or the main rag; the one that has to open for the show to start
Perspective Scenery
Grand Drape
Voltage
Elevation
45. 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
Borders
Stand pipe
Grand Drape
Platforms
46. First rules of safety in theater
Thrust Stage
Catwalk
Master Electrician/Electrician
Look - listen - and learn
47. Designer that usually determines the color of the show
Fusible links
Set Pieces
Scenic Designer
SAFETY
48. Steel framework that runs above the stage that is used to support the rigging system
Downstage
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Gridiron
49. Everything hands on - the person who figures out how the set will be built and then oversees construction - works closest with Scenic Director
Grand Drape
Technical Director
Voltage
Downstage
50. 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
Vomitorium
Scrim
Masking
Fly loft