Quiz F (6) Flashcards
Dramatic Parsona
Persons of the play
Draperies stage
Set of draperies used to mask the backstage area when no scenery is being used
Drapery hangers
Steel sockets and hooks used to support door and window draperies. Hooks are attached to a drapery pole, sockets to the scenery.
Dress the stage
To keep the stage pictures in balance, thought not necessarily in formal balance.
Dressing the house
Distributing a small audience over the house
Drop
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.
Drop cutout
A standard drop with sections removed to give it a distinctive shape.
Dumps
Tickets returned unsold
Dutchman
A strip of muslin 5’’ wide that is glued and tacked over the hinge and crack formed when two flats are hinged together..
End man
Performers, seated at either side of a stage in a minstrel show, who have most of the jokes.
Equity
Actors Equity Association, an actors’ union
Exit line
The last words spoken by an actor before he leaves the stage
Exposition
Explanatory material without which characters, situation, or plot would be unclear; common in thought not necessarily limited to early scenes.
Extras
A character without lines who may contributes atmosphere or local color, as a passer-by, a member of a crowd, and the like.
Eye Bolt
A threaded shaft with one end formed into a solid ring
Fall
That part of the rope of a tackle rigging to which the power is applied in hoisting
False proscenium
A decorative silhouette usually made of two-di-mentional scenery, places just upstage of and parallel with the regular proscenium arch
Farce
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.
Festured
Billing secondary only to starring
Feed
To “set up” a laugh line or climatic effect for another character by supplying or building the groundwork.
Fire curtain
A asbestos curtain
Flat
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)
Flat archway
A flat frame with the structural members arranged as to form a door or window opening with a curved or shaped top,
