A glossary of Stage Terms for students exploring design for Stage and Screen

Lamps: Strand 5kw Tungsten Fresnel

Strand 5kw Tungsten Fresnel fixture, 16amp CEE form plug, manual rigging controls, fitted with 15″Rinbow Pro Colour changer and barn-doors

Lamps: Source Four Zoom Profiles

ECT Source Four Zoom Profiles 750w Tungsten bulb, including “C” clamp and 15amp plug, shaping doors and gel frame. The group of 6 have safety chains fitted  

Off Stage

Off Stage includes areas that are off the stage, areas outside the performance area, such as the wings and backstage.

Black Leg

Black Leg. A vertical hanging fire retardant or fireproof black drape used for masking off stage areas such as the wings.

Fog Machine

A Fog Machine can come as a “Dry Ice” machine, whereby the dry ice is heated thus producing a white vapour. The Smoke Machine is a machine that heats up a special fluid which turns into a similar vapor. Both machines can in turn expell onto the stage, what appears to be a white fog […]

Mise en Scene

Mise en Scene means, all the visual content on the stage, including the performers, the scenery, the props, etc. Everything!  

French Brace

A French Brace or Jack Brace is a wooden construction of three lengths of timber fixed in the form of an elongated right angle triangle. To make them less noticeable on stage they are painted matt black. Their long side of the right-angle is screwed or hinged to the back of a flat and the […]