Types of Playing Spaces
A type of theater featuring seating on all sides of the stage.
What is an in-the-round/arena?
Square, Allen, Torx, and Phillips are all types of these.
What are screws?
A three-sided wall on wheels that you can move around the stage.
What is a triangle?
The small area of the theater where patrons can purchase tickets or reserve their seats in advance.
What is the box office?
Anything that is in front of the actors/main area of focus.
What is the foreground?
A type of theater featuring seating on three sides of the stage and a back wall.
What is a thrust?
A tool designed for brute force. The best use of this tool is to get nails, staples, and screws flat against the wood they've been driven into.
What is a hammer?
A type of set where the background is built into the set; each part of the set goes together and does not change.
What is a box set?
The area from where all lights and sound are operated during a show; where the stage manager sets up camp during a performance.
What is the control booth?
A word meaning to take special care of something while paying attention to its smaller details.
What is curate?
A type of theater with seating on one side of the stage and wings for the actors to hide and do quick changes in.
What is a proscenium?
A pure type of wood that is defined by its width and its height.
What are planks?
A type of background that can be changed at the push of a button.
What is a projection?
Where the audience sits.
What is the house?
Words you project above the stage so that the audience can follow along with the music in an opera.
What are surtitles?
The group of people whose placement decides what kind of playing space a theater has.
Who is the audience?
A jaw-shaped tool designed to help keep objects in place for a short amount of time.
What is a clamp?
A hanging piece of fabric on which a background can be painted or projected.
What is a scrim?
The front part of a proscenium stage; some of these can raise and lower.
What is an apron?
A French phrase meaning "living painting."
What is a tableau vivant?
A type of theater with movable seating that is designed to transport the viewer to a separate plane of existence.
What is a black box?
An engineered type of wood that is designed to be thin, brittle, and easy to cover with paint.
What is luan?
A modification you must make to any text you would like to project from behind the actors.
What is backward/mirrored text?
An area unique to Muncie Central specially designed for holding extra walls and furniture.
What is the set loft?
The Greek word for the triangles used in set design.
What is a periaktos? OR What are periaktoi?