Basic Vocabulary
The Stage
Elements of Design
The Production Team
Theatre Technology
100
Just like actors, the technical crew also has to go to the theatre version of "practice."
What is technical rehearsal?
100
The person/people responsible for moving things furniture, scenery, or props on stage.
Who are the stagehands. (Running crew is also acceptable).
100
This makes the stage bright or dark. Can be different colors?
What are lighting effects?
100

The director who is in charge of all backstage/tech elements?

Who is the tech director?

100
A stencil for lighting. Many different colors and shapes can be created with these.
What are gobos?
200

The skill or art of writing plays.

What is playwriting?

200
Proscenium, Thrust and Arena.
What are the three different types of stages?
200
These can make the actors look different so that they can play different parts?
What are costumes?
200
The people who create the costumes, scenery, lighting and other items needed to put the show together.
Who are the designers?
200
A computerized or physical object that represents the stage.
What is a scale model?
300

The person who stages a play with a specific vision?

Who is the director?

300

The areas of the stage that actors utilize when blocking a scene?

What are Stage Directions / Acting Areas?

300
This makes the stage look like it takes place in another land.
What is scenery?
300
This person must be extremely organized. He is the mediator between the director and the rest of the cast and crew.
Who is the stage manger?
300
Things you need to make a garment. Examples are needles, thread, buttons, zippers ect.
What are notions?
400
The instructions that are given to actors and technical crew when something needs to happen.
What are cues?
400
Scenery "flies" up/down in/out of a stage with the help of rope or wires, pulleys and counterweights during scene changes.
What is fly system? (fly rail is also acceptable).
400
Items that the actors hold in the show. Can be big or small.
What are props?
400
These people are the workers of the show. They follow the orders of others and typically have no say in the design process.
Who are the crew members?
400
Table, straight, jig, skill, chop are examples of these.
What are types of saws?
500
How to behave act backstage.
What is backstage etiquette.
500
When it is time to clean up the stage for the last time before a show's final run.
What is "striking the set"?
500

The audience can hear this, a crew member often controls this?

What are sound effects? (Also accept sound cues)

500
This person hires everyone who works on a production. They are in charge of money, choose the script, and choose where to perform the show.
Who is the theatrical producer?
500
There are light and sound varieties but it controls the on stage effects of a production.
What is a board? (Sound or light board).
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