WorksheetsMcWhorter stage space, positions, and tech
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Number 2, is what stage direction?
UC- Up Stage Center
C- Center Stage
DC- Down Stage Center
Number 3, is what stage direction?
UL- Up Stage Left
DL- Down Stage Left
UR- Up Stage Right
DR- Down Stage Right
Number 5, is what stage direction?
M- Middle Stage
MC- Middle Stage Center
C- Center Stage
UC- Up Stage Center
Number 7, is what stage direction?
DR- Down Stage Rigght
UR- Up Stage Right
DL- Down Stage Left
UL-Up Stage Left
This stage is a performance space with audience members on only one side.
Thrust Stage
Arena Stage
Proscenium Stage
This stage is a performance space with audience members on three sides.
Thrust Stage
Arena Stage
Proscenium Stage
This stage is a performance space with audience members on all four sides (all around).
Thrust Stage
Arena Stage
Proscenium Stage
What is a stage?
The stage is a designated space for the performance of productions.
The back of a building where people stand to watch a performance.
The area behind an audience.
Where is the apron?
The Apron is behinds wings.
The Apron is the kitchen.
The Apron is a section of the stage floor which projects towards or into the auditorium.
Which of the following image shows a proscenium arch?
What is the Cyclorama?
The Cyclorama is a plain cloth or plastered wall filling the rear of the stage.
The area housing the orchestra or band.
The Cyclorama is an area that is a part of a stage but offstage (out of sight of the audience).
This raked stage illustrates the origins of what theatre blocking terms?
Stage Left, Stage Right
Backstage
Enter, Exit, Cross/Move
Upstage, Downstage
Words spoken by a character to the audience rather than to the other characters, who supposedly DO NOT hear the speech.
Aside
Audition
Authentic
The director’s planned movement for the actor’s.
Moving
Blocking
Crossing
During a musical, the orchestra usually sits in the ____________.
Wings
Backstage
Pit
Lobby
The stage opening is called the ____________.
Parenski
Presidio
Thrust
Proscenium
The curtain that closes off almost the entire stage is called the ____________.
Grand Teaser
Grand Drape
Act Curtain
Cyc
The off-stage area where scenery can be stored is called the ____________ area.
Wing
Call Board
Green Room
Tormentor
A narrow horizontal masking piece, normally black, to mask the lighting rig and flown scenery from the audience, and to provide an upper limit to the scene. (They hide the wings and backstage areas.)
Channel
Company
C-Clamp
Borders
The imaginary wall between the actors and the audience is known as the ...?
First wall
Second wall
Third wall
Fourth wall
