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Terms to Know

Terms to Know. Stagecraft I. Geography of the Stage. aRBOR. Part of a fly system. A device mounted in one of the wings, which is connected to the lift lines at the opposite end of the batten. Here at Palmer, our arbor is in the Stage Right wing. Batten.

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Terms to Know

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  1. Terms to Know Stagecraft I

  2. Geography of the Stage

  3. aRBOR • Part of a fly system. A device mounted in one of the wings, which is connected to the lift lines at the opposite end of the batten. • Here at Palmer, our arbor is in the Stage Right wing.

  4. Batten • Part of a fly system. A horizontal pipe, supported by lift lines, which is easily raised and lowered; even when holding a significant amount of weight.

  5. Blacks • The blacks are a collection of stage drapery; usually made of black velour. These curtains hang on each side of the stage, above the stage, and upstage of the playing area for the purpose of masking the wings, flys, and upstage wall, respectively. Blacks masking the wings are legs, Blacks masking the flys are borders, and the upstage curtain is the blackdrop. • Travelers are blacks that open and close.

  6. Stage Curtains The curtain in the front of the stage is the Grand Curtain.

  7. Rope Lock • Part of a fly system. A handle mounted on a lock rail in the wings which, when closed, applies friction to the hand line and prevents drifting or movement of a balanced line set.

  8. Cyc, Cyclorama, Skydrop • A light value curtain, which hangs upstage and hides the back wall of the theatre from the audience. Skydrops are usually sky blue, light grey, or white in order to suggest the sky. They are not painted. If they were, they would be backdrops. • They are often used to reflect colored light. • If a skydrop is long enough to cover three walls of the perfromance space, it is a cyclorama or “cyc”.

  9. Sightlines • Imaginary lines indicating the view from the extreme-most seats in the house. • If someone or something is “within sightlines”, it means that they are visible to all audience members. • If someone or something is “out of sightlines” it means they are visible to no audience member.

  10. Fire Curtain • A permanent feature of proscenium-style theatres. Designed to automatically close and seal off the stage from the rest of the house in the event of a fire. • We have one. Don’t touch it.

  11. Stage and platform • Primary performance space (Also: Deck, Boards, Orchestra) • Platforms are a piece of scenery (usually strong enough to support people) that is used to change the height of the stage floor to whatever is required for a given set.

  12. Pull • To take something out of storage (known as stock) and use it for a show; with or without any alterations. Pulling from stock most often refers to scenery, props, or costumes.

  13. Spike • Marking the stage floor with an indicator showing the location of a set piece or where a performer is supposed to stand.

  14. Stage Directions • Information in a script that describes what the playwright expects the audience to experience at that particular moment in the production.

  15. Strike • Two definitions: • 1: Refers to temporarily taking something off the stage during a scene change. “At blackout, you strike the phone” • 2: Dismantling or destroying something that took weeks of effort and a pile of cash to build. “We’ll strike the set on Saturday night”

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