Course: THEA 115 Play Production
Naming of Parts
Arthur Dirks
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Locations: Stage and auditiorium
Scene Shop
Property Storage
Design Room
Lighting Booth
Audio Production
Make-up
Costume Shop
Costume Storage
Dressing Rooms
Torm Rooms
Lighting Lab
Technical Production Office
Stage shapes Proscenium
Extended apron
Eccentric forms
Arena
Thrust
  • Proscenium
  • Proscenium wall
  • False proscenium, show portal, pro
  • Apron
  • Stage house
  • Wings
  • Flyspace
  • Rigging, counterweight system
  • Line, locking rail, arbor, stage weight, handline, lock
  • Electrics, lighting bridge
  • Front-of-house lighting positions: beam slot, front catwalk, tormentor slots, box booms, stage booms, trees, balcony rail
  • Traveller, tab or tableau, contour, roll, guillotine
  • Drop, scrim, cyclorama, cyc
  • rehearsal board
  • patch panel, dimmer racks

  • Paint frame, paint bridge
  • Orchestra, ground floor
  • Balcony, mezzanine, loge
  • Orchestra pit
  • Floor, dance floor, overlay
  • Traps, trap room
  • Turntable, revolve
  • Grid, gridiron, fly gallery, loading gallery
  • Batten, spot line
  • Fire curtain, smoke pocket, fire doors

  • Stage dressing, drapery, drape
  • Act curtain, main rag, grande drape, grand teaser, grand
  • Teaser, header, border
  • Tormentor, leg, torm

  • Floor pockets, wall pockets
  • Lighting control, sound control, intercom, house phone
  • Cable, instrument, lamp

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