Safety with the Fly System and Ropes
True or False: Because they it's small, it is okay to keep change in your pockets when you ascend.
What is FALSE?
Safety boots are important to wear for these two reasons.
What is 1) To protect against stepping on a nail and 2) to prevent slipping on a ladder?
These are the objects that actors use during a show.
What are props?
Le gréement
What is the rigging?
Upstage
What is the arrière scène/lointain ?
This is the word you say if you drop something.
What is heads?
Tools can be secured to these three places.
What is 1) the operator, 2) the ladder, or 3) part of the building structure?
This is where actors get prepared for a show.
What is the dressing room?
La toile de fond
What is the backdrop?
The curtain track
What is la patience (rideau)?
The technical synonym for "to raise" is also something birds do.
What is to fly?
This color paint can mark hazardous areas.
What is white paint?
This is the system of ropes, pulleys, counterweights within a theatre to allow the stage crew to hoist curtains, lights, scenery...etc.
What are the flies/the fly system?
Le chalumeau
What is a blowtorch, welding torch?
TO tighten
What is serrer?
Name three things you must do when working with the fly system and ropes.
What are 1) making sure people are out of the way, 2) clearing all hazards and 3) telling others that you are about to move something in or out on stage.
These are the two methods for using a ladder safely.
What is 1) securing it or 2) someone else holding it in place?
What is a link? What are rapid and unwelded links?
La régie
What is the control room?
To fray
This type of rope deteriorates with time.
What is natural fiber ropes?
These two tools (among others) create sawdust.
What are saws and planers?
The resistance of a material to breaking under pressure/stress.
What is tensile strength?
Appuyer
What is to fly out?
Truck/rostrum
What is podium, estrade?