Intro to costuming and prop theatre terms

What items belong in the costume shop?

• Costume pieces

• Shoes

• Hats

• Jewelry

• All of the above

A costume parade is for

• Seeing all completed costumes under stage lights and allowing the director to request changes.

• The end of the show when actors are taking bows.

• Let the actors get the feel for their costume

• Allow actors to show costumers which pieces they don’t like.

This person assists with getting an actor quickly into a different costume in a short amount of time during a show.

• Cutter

• Costume designer

• Milliner

• Dresser

A time in the show when an actor needs to put on another costume in a short amount of time is called a -

• Dresser

• Dressing Room

• Quick change

• Scene change

A seamstress predominately does -

• Cutting

• Sewing

• Designing

• Dressing

These small pieces of fabric and other materials are used to show examples of fabric, lights, paint to directors so they can get the vision of a design.

• Swatch

• Gel

• Vision Board

• Pinterest board

If you make a mistake and have to get rid of sewing, you would use -

• Scissors

• A pin

• A seam ripper

• Your fingers

A wardrobe plot contains which of the following -

• Every costume piece an actor will wear

• Shoes an actor will wear

• Makeup designs for the actor

• Accessories like purses, hat, or jewelry an actor wears

What do you use Fabric Scissors for ?

• Fabric and Paper

• Fabric and Thread

• Anything

• Just Fabric. Only Fabric. Nothing else.

Table in convenient offstage area on which properties are prepared prior to a performance and to which they should be returned after use.

• prop table

• color correction

• door slam

• set dresser