What is Theatre
This type of stage has the audience on only one side and has a picture frame look around it.
What is a Proscenium Stage
This set of all black clothes is typically worn by technicians while working backstage during a show.
What are Show Blacks?
This set piece is used to make a wall and is made by turning the frame on it’s edge and is typically covered with a hard surface.
What is a Hollywood Flat?
A small part with a glass bulb and filament inside that is used to produce light when in the theater it is called something different that what is used in your house.
What is a Lamp?
This handheld tool is what you would use to make a curved cut in wood.
What is a jigsaw?
This type of stage has audience on 3 sides of the stage.
What is a thrust stage?
This response is typically given after the Stage Manager announces a timed call such as “10 to places”
What is “Thank You 10”?
This set piece is used to make a wall and is made by turning the frame on its face and held together with corner blocks. It is typically covered with a soft surface of cloth.
What is a Broadway Flat?
This is happens when the signal from a microphone comes out of the speakers and is peaked up by the microphone again and creates an infinite loop of sound.
What is Feed back?
A colored image that is used to communicate a designer’s final design ideas.
What is a rendering?
This type of stage has audience on all 4 sides.
What is an arena/ Theatre in the round?
This is the place where props are laid out for a show and where they need to go back after each use.
What is a prop table?
This is what a platform becomes when you add wheels to it.
What is a Wagon?
The parts of the stage are broken up into groups for lighting purposes.
What is an Area?
The position that all technicians report to in educational theatre.
Who is the Technical Director/TD?
Also answers to supreme leader!
The name of this play is never to be said while in a theatre, due to the 500 year old curse on it.
What is Macbeth?
This is the set of rehearsals where lights, sound, costume, and set changes are added in, and marks the nearing of the end of rehearsals.
What is Tech Rehearsals?
A large, usually white, fabric drop that when used with lighting to change it’s color can change the mood and feel of the action on stage.
What is a Cyc?
This type of cable has 3 prongs on one end and is used to carry sound signals from a mic to the board, not to be confused with a lighting data cable.
What is an XLR cable?
The type of screw bit used on star shaped screws that are harder to strip out.
What is a Torx bit?
This type of stage has audience on 2 sides of the stage.
What is a Traverse Stage?
This call and response is given before something is moved in or out using the fly system, it is used to warn people of things moving above them.
What is “Heads on Stage”?
This is a mesh like fabric that can’t be seen through when lit on the front, but is see through when lit from behind.
What is a scrim?
This data cable is used in Lighting to send data signals from the board to the instruments, a lot of times it is associated with LED lights.
What is DMX cable?
A stock human drawing figure used in costume design so the designer doesn’t have to start from scratch.
What are Croquis?