Things to know - people and the stuff

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Across
  1. 1. one of the names for the area in front of the proscenium that can be an acting area
  2. 5. a special curtain with a really open weave that looks solid if you light it from the front, and becomes translucent if you light it from the back. There was one used quite a lot in Brigadoon.
  3. 7. a theatre configuration where the audience is sitting on three sides of the acting area.
  4. 8. the curtains that specifically keep us from seeing offstage to the right or left. They help hide entrances
  5. 10. the curtains that we have in the Donnell that hide the really extreme sightlines. They run up to down stage.
  6. 11. the "boss" in a for-profit theatre
  7. 13. Generic term for all of the curtains that keep us from seeing the stuff backstage
  8. 15. any curtain that moves side to side
  9. 16. another word for the audience
  10. 19. Another term for theatre in-the-round
  11. 21. the drawing of the set -- from the side -- so you can see how tall things are
  12. 22. the term used in the theatre for a pipe that scenery or lighting hangs on
Down
  1. 2. A seating area, a group of musicians, a pit
  2. 3. an entrance to the stage from under the audience seating area -- like in a football stadium
  3. 4. the name given to the areas of the theatre that are directly off stage
  4. 6. the steel structure above the theatre space that supports all of the flying scenery and lighting.
  5. 9. marking where a piece of furniture goes in a scene -- usually with tape
  6. 10. Nope -- this is not what you do with your bangs. This is the height that a drop or drapery plays at. Usually there is a high one and a low one.
  7. 12. Stage __________ is the same as House Left
  8. 14. the invisible line that goes across the stage at the upstage side of the proscenium. We use it with the center line to place the set in the space.
  9. 17. the term used when the stage or the audience is at an angle
  10. 18. the direction an actor is going if they are walking away from the audience
  11. 20. a light that we leave on for safety when the theatre is empty