The stagecraft handbook
By: Daniel A. Ionazzi.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Betterway Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Cincinnati, Ohio
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The Greeks -- The Romans -- The Middle Ages -- The Italian Renaissance -- The 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries -- Forms of the theater. Proscenium -- Thrust -- Arena -- Environmental -- Theater equipment. Rigging systems -- Moving floors -- Masking -- Shop layout. Stock scenery storage -- Tools. Stationary power tools -- Portable power tools -- Hand tools -- Drilling tools -- Metalwork tools -- Welding -- Shop safety. Safety rules and procedures -- The shop environment -- Staff organization. Commercial shops -- Nonprofit shops -- Job descriptions -- Scale drawings. Drafting conventions and symbols -- Designer’s drawings -- Ground plans -- Sections -- Elevations -- Detail drawings -- Pictorials -- Construction drawings -- Paint elevations -- Models -- Wood. Board lumber -- Sheet goods -- Moulding -- Metal. Structural steel -- Tubing -- Pipe -- Plastics. Styrofoam -- Beadboard -- Acrylic -- Lexan -- Ethafoam -- Polyurethane foam -- PVC -- Fabric. Scenery fabrics -- Stage draperies -- Specialty fabrics -- Fasteners. Nails -- Staples -- Screws -- Bolts -- Adhesives -- Hardware -- Latches -- Casters -- Stage hardware -- Wire rope and accessories -- Fiber Rope -- Joinery -- Unframed scenery. Drops, Legs and borders -- Cut drops -- Framed scenery. Flats -- The cut list -- Door and window flats -- Soft-covering flats -- Hard-covering flats -- Studio flats -- Curved walls -- Steel flat frames -- Three-dimensional construction. Doors and windows -- Moulding -- Columns -- Trees -- Rocks -- Weight bearing scenic units. Platforms -- Wagons -- Slip stages, jackknife wagons and turntables -- Show decks -- Ramps and raked stage -- Stairs -- Paint preparation -- Joining scenery together. Joining traditional theatrical flats -- Stiffening -- Bracing -- Studio flats -- Installing the single set -- Shifting scenery. Shifting on the deck -- Rigging to fly -- Using fiber rope -- Stock scenery.