General Vocabs

Question 1

Thrust stage

Answer 1

Audience on three sides

Question 2

Amphitheater

Answer 2

is Ancient Greek theater where stage is on floor and audience is higher

Question 3

Arena staging

Answer 3

or staging in the round is four side audience

Question 4

Black box

Answer 4

theater is small experimental theater, malleable

Question 5

Environmental theater

Answer 5

When the location is meant to imitate of is it’s,the setting of the theatrics, sp

Question 6

Procenium

Answer 6

Stage when the audience just lookes at the front of the stage

Question 7

House

Answer 7

area where audience sits

Question 8

Box office

Answer 8

where you sell ticket

Question 9

Balcony

Answer 9

higher area of seating or The Gods in England

Question 10

Orchestra

Answer 10

main floor of seating $$ or stalls in England

Question 11

Mezzanine

Answer 11

first balcony or louge in England

Question 12

Deck

Answer 12

Stage is deck

Question 13

Tormentor (leg)

Answer 13

vertical masking helps hide people and Teaser (border) horizontal masking helps hide lights and scenery

Question 14

Teaser (border)

Answer 14

horizontal masking helps hide lights and scenery

Question 15

Grand drapery

Answer 15

main curtain) also traveling curtain black volure is fire proof

Question 16

Travelers

Answer 16

The other curtains

Question 17

Cyclorama

Answer 17

is wall or drop used for Sky and curved at ends or backdrop

Question 18

Scrim

Answer 18

is a mesh fabric that has holes, light it from front can’t see through it

Question 19

Raked stage

Answer 19

On a racket stage an actor who is farther from the Audience is higher than an actor who is closer to the audience. It’s a stage floor angled from edge of the stage, up toward the back of the stage

Question 20

Flats:

Answer 20

makes prop walls
-tear easily, not sturdy

Tv or hard flats: covered in lightweight wood more sturdy used in tv sit coms

Question 21

Batten

Answer 21

Pipe batten. A length of metal of metal pipes to hang things from in fly space attached to counterweight system, for every pound of scenery you have you have to have a pound of weight to balance it

Question 22

Fly/lock rail

Answer 22

where you fly and lock things in place

Question 23

Platform

Answer 23

raised section of floor on legs

Rolling platform: like wagon that has casters

Question 24

Fire curtain

Answer 24

hangs high fire proof, behind main curtain, drops if there a fire and crushes anything in its way and gives audience time to get out

Question 25

Fire doors

Answer 25

open in fire and let’s air in, in the fly loft

Question 26

Cat walk

Answer 26

fire escape run way, walkway above audience

Question 27

Dressing room

Answer 27

back stage where costume and makeup is done lots of lights

Question 28

Green Room

Answer 28

actors lounge with couches and food where actors hangout or wait to go on stage, there is speaker so actors know when to go on stage

Question 29

Grid

Answer 29

top of flys- metal bars/bands that run back and forth in between pullies

Question 30

Counterweight system

Answer 30

The load over the stage is counter balanced by an equal amount of steel weights called “counterweights” behause within a Theater that emailer a Stage Crw to quickly, quietly and Safely Fly

Question 31

Control Booth

Answer 31

Control Rom,Lightning box,technical Booth

Question 32

Orchestra Pit

Answer 32

Requiem Music in fades Ehen invidental music is Requiems like als opera and ballet

Question 33

Aprom

Answer 33

Is the Part of the Stage that is im Front of the Curtain

Question 34

Wings

Answer 34

Areas that are a part of the stage but offstage (out of sight of the audience)

Question 35

Pin rail

Answer 35

railing that has pins because you can rap rope around so you don’t have to hold, level above lock rail