Technical Theater Vocabulary

• Audience Blinders

  A bank of small PAR cans all mounted in the same texture. Used to create a bright wash of light on the audience
• Personal Props

  Items that are carried onstage by the actor during a performance
• Subwoofer

  Speaker designed to play very low almost inaudible frequencies
• Front-Of-House

  Anything in the house rather than onstage
• Grand Drape

  The main and grand curtain covering the set of the stage
• Masking

  The draperies or flats that hide backstage from the audience
• Casters

  The wheels on a platform
• Stock Scenery

  Flats and plot form that are stored and used for many different productions
• Valence

  A small drapery that runs across the top of the grand drape and hides the hardware that suspends it
• Wing Space

  The space on the stage that is not visible to the audience
• Douser

  The control on a follow spot that fades out the light by slowly closing set of doors
• Floor Plan

  The diagram showing the placement of the scenery as viewed from above
• Crossfader

  
• Prompt Book

  
• Jackknife Platform

  
• Hazer

  
• Call Board

  
• Green Room

  
• House Right

  
• Shotgun Mic

  
• Set Dressing

  
• Woofer

  
• Audience Blinders

  
• Stock Scenery

  
• Casters

  
• Masking

  
• Grand Drape

  
• Front-Of-House

  
• Subwoofer

  
• Personal Props

  
• Boom Stand

  
• Back Light

  
• False Proscenium