Test Your Technical Theatre Knowledge

Technical Aspects of Theatrical, Film, Video Production:

• Stagecraft is a technical aspect of theatrical, film, and video production.
• It includes constructing and rigging scenery, hanging and focusing lighting, design and procurement of costumes, make-up, stage management, audio engineering, and procurement of props.
• Stagecraft is distinct from the wider umbrella term of scenography.
• It is primarily the practical implementation of a scenic designer's artistic vision.
• Stagecraft may be executed by a single person or a team of designers, carpenters, electricians, stagehands, stitchers, wigmakers, etc.
• Greek theatre made extensive use of stagecraft, and Greek vocabulary and practice continue to influence contemporary Western stagecraft.
• Plays of Medieval times were held in different places such as the streets of towns and cities, performed by traveling, secular troupes.
• More modern stagecraft was developed in England between 1576 and 1642.
• Proscenium stages were constructed in France around the time of the English Restoration.
• Stagecraft during the Victorian era in England developed rapidly with the emergence of the West End.
• The technologies developed during the latter part of the 19th-century paved the way for the development of special effects to be used in film.
• Modern theatrical lighting is electrically-based and comprises many sub-disciplines.