Quiz F (6)

Question 1

Dramatic Parsona

Answer 1

Persons of the play

Question 2

Draperies stage

Answer 2

Set of draperies used to mask the backstage area when no scenery is being used

Question 3

Drapery hangers

Answer 3

Steel sockets and hooks used to support door and window draperies. Hooks are attached to a drapery pole, sockets to the scenery.

Question 4

Dress the stage

Answer 4

To keep the stage pictures in balance, thought not necessarily in formal balance.

Question 5

Dressing the house

Answer 5

Distributing a small audience over the house

Question 6

Drop

Answer 6

A large unframed expanse of cloth supported by a heavy wooden batten at the top with a lighter batten at the batton to hold the material free to wrinkles.

Question 7

Drop cutout

Answer 7

A standard drop with sections removed to give it a distinctive shape.

Question 8

Dumps

Answer 8

Tickets returned unsold

Question 9

Dutchman

Answer 9

A strip of muslin 5’’ wide that is glued and tacked over the hinge and crack formed when two flats are hinged together..

Question 10

End man

Answer 10

Performers, seated at either side of a stage in a minstrel show, who have most of the jokes.

Question 11

Equity

Answer 11

Actors Equity Association, an actors’ union

Question 12

Exit line

Answer 12

The last words spoken by an actor before he leaves the stage

Question 13

Exposition

Answer 13

Explanatory material without which characters, situation, or plot would be unclear; common in thought not necessarily limited to early scenes.

Question 14

Extras

Answer 14

A character without lines who may contributes atmosphere or local color, as a passer-by, a member of a crowd, and the like.

Question 15

Eye Bolt

Answer 15

A threaded shaft with one end formed into a solid ring

Question 16

Fall

Answer 16

That part of the rope of a tackle rigging to which the power is applied in hoisting

Question 17

False proscenium

Answer 17

A decorative silhouette usually made of two-di-mentional scenery, places just upstage of and parallel with the regular proscenium arch

Question 18

Farce

Answer 18

A play which, like a comedy is expected to arouse laughter, but which stresses external incident and usually with an unusual situation at the expense of carefully drawn character.

Question 19

Festured

Answer 19

Billing secondary only to starring

Question 20

Feed

Answer 20

To “set up” a laugh line or climatic effect for another character by supplying or building the groundwork.

Question 21

Fire curtain

Answer 21

A asbestos curtain

Question 22

Flat

Answer 22

A screen-like unit of flat scenery, consisting of a relatively light wooden frame covered with canvas or muslin; several fists in combination make up the walls of a box set. (A narrow fist is usually celled a jog)

Question 23

Flat archway

Answer 23

A flat frame with the structural members arranged as to form a door or window opening with a curved or shaped top,