Stage Craft Quiz

influenced theatrical structural designs

• engineering

• styles

• manufacturing

• agriculture

equipment used in hanging scenery and lighting over a stage-ropes, pulleys, arbors, pipes

• Plains

• Pulley System

• Rigging

• idk

soft cushioned blow is needed

• Cement

• Rubber Mallet

• Metal Hammer

• Vice Grips

rip lumber to specific widthfeed in long boards to create thin long strips

• Circular saw

• Jig Saw

• Mitre/Chop Saw

• Table Saw

Why use straight grain lumber?

• lower number=higher grade=better more desireable=more expensive#1 straight graine no knots#2 larger and more knots BEST#3 or utility loose knots=holes

• won't split, break or warp, tree not under stress, consistent

• various ways that the grain of the layers of wood are glued, oriented at right angles to create strength in all directions

• two letters, two distinct sides requiring two different letters, A/C is most common

Scrim

• variations in light intensity used to create variations in the opacity of the scrim fabrictoner for a cycmaterializing someone

• gathering fabric at top of form folds or pleats, more pleats=richer and heavier curtain

• rigged with a traveler to fly in and out, Austrian curtain, has nylon lift lines that pull upward so curtain gathers itself up from bottom

• black drape...duh, covers entire width of stage in rear or halfway back, used as a dark background, covering device for shifting scenery

Fullness

• stores counterweights, located near grid so one can reach arbors and highest point of travel

• cuz it keeps the line taut

• gathering fabric at top of form folds or pleats, more pleats=richer and heavier curtain

• very high strength stranded steel cable, in place of a hemp, exceeds strength of hemp, stetching factor negligible, not changed by humidity

imaginary line that runs across stage from one side to other directly upstage of proscenium opening

• Imaginary line

• Ranking line

• idk line

• Plaster line

Black Box Theatre

• passageway under audience seating from backstage space to the stage, popular in thrust theatres

• flexible seatingrisers used for sightlineslow costextreme intimacyscenic elemetns less important

• large number of seats in small number of roes=closer to stageactor friendlysightline problems

• easy scene change during performance, slots in floor with poles mounted on carts so that pulleys could move the set pieces

During what time period was the first front curtain used?

• small clamp attached to purchase line at low trim mark, used when exact position of a piece is critical or flyman is nunreliable

• stores counterweights, located near grid so one can reach arbors and highest point of travel

• Romans, series of poles lowered to reveal stage

• very high strength stranded steel cable, in place of a hemp, exceeds strength of hemp, stetching factor negligible, not changed by humidity