GENERAL TECHNICAL AND PRODUCTION PLACEMENT EXAM

1. A BUTT JOINT is:
   • a slang term for a contemporary dance club
   • a common woodworking term
   • what buttheads smoke
   • colloquial term for the coccyx
2. VAN DYKE BROWN:
   • is a very dark, almost black brown
   • was first patented by two brothers named Dick and Jerry
   • was first used as a dye for greying facial hair
   • is made by mixing german chocolate and two day old expressio in an acrylic medium
3. MASONITE is:
   • a type of luggage
   • a composite sheeting material
   • often stored in mason jars
   • made with a mixture of vinyl adhesive and minced freemasons
4. DRYWALL SCREWS are:
   • unable to be used under damp conditions
   • often used for temporary installations
   • simulated in many x-rated films
   • less sweet with a lighter body
5. In terms of scenic painting and set fabrication, RAGGING refers to:
   • the start of every morning
   • the end of every afternoon
   • applying paint texture to walls
   • the process of wearing good clothes too often to work
6. PICKUP REHEARSALS are used primarily for:
   • reviewing lines and ques prior to a second weekend run
   • practicing opening lines prior to visiting bars
   • driver training in a Chevy truck
   • preventing groin damage in male ballet dancers
7. The FLUX CAPACITOR is:
   • a the copper coil inside an autotransformer
   • what makes time travel possible
   • the focusing component within an ellipsoidal reflector spot
   • the origin of the term F/X
8. A BLOCK DIAGRAM is:
   • football's answer to the MAGIC SHEET
   • lesson one in the AutoCAD FOR TOTTLERS workbook
   • a schematic representation of sound equipment hookups
   • a drawing of Charlie Brown's head
9. A distinquishing characteristic of a BRIGHT SCREW is:
   • its galvanized coating
   • ...don't even go there; we know what you're thinking
   • its usefulness under low light conditions
   • its knowledge of the string theory of the universe
10. In some South American theaters, the term CARRYING A TORCH means:
    • suffering through unrequited love
    • having a Maglite handy
    • being able to light a cigarette
    • having a part in the Sydney Olympics opening ceremonies

• ____Dutchmen applied to scenery designed to be flown in and out on battens are known as FLYING DUTCHMEN.
• ____It is more honorable to make great theatre with inappropriately low budgets than with inappropriately inflated budgets.
• ____Theatre students as a whole are committed, or at least, ought to be.
• ____Castor oil is used to lubricate rolling platforms.
• ____The past perfect tense of sawdust is haveseendust.
• ____Good theatre is the result of happy accident.
• ____Cheese cloth is used to make cottage cheese.
• ____ The use of headblocks and/or loftblocks in ice hockey will result in an automatic six minute penalty.

MATCH UP THE FOLLOWING WORDS WITH THEIR CORRECT DEFINITIONS:

_____ OLIGADRAMATISCONSTRUCTIVISM	A.Castration by gravemarker.
_____ PARALUMINESCOTCHING	B. Painful bruising resulting from being thrown from a rustic two wheeled cart.
_____ MAUSOLEMASCULATION	C. Putting so much glo tape on a set that during blackouts it looks like an airport at night.
_____ NOCTUGASTRUMPTION	D. Scenic fabrication by an elite few.
_____EXBIROTAHEMATOMATA	E. Waiting to eat dinner until late at night because of long work schedules.

• 1. Under your seat you will find two hundred dollars. Take this money and devise a unique, creative, and high-quality production concept for any full-length production of your choice. Detail completely with all appropriate sketches, fully realized renderings and painted elevations, floorplans, lighting designs, costume designs, and models. Suggest ways by which you could complete the same project for less money, while retaining the artistic integrity, if any, of the proposed production.
  BONUS: If you have any money remaining at the end of your production, TREAT YOURSELF TO DINNER!
  Note: If you have any money remaining at the START of your production, you really DO belong in the theatre!
• Discuss fully the theory of Calculatus Eliminatus and its potential use within the context of theatrical production. Relate your answer to its possible use in instances of lost innocence. Discuss other things that may be lost and not regained through this technique.
• Examine the current social, political, and cultural bias AGAINST platform ladders. Discuss the historical significance of tall ships and bamboo scaffolding in the evolution of this prejudice. Include in your answer appropriate references to the roles of other lifting and climbing structures in the present anti-platform stance being taken in many professional theaters worldwide, including but not limited to: A-Frame Ladders, Genie Lifts, Motorized Lift Platforms, Boatswain's Chairs, and Metal Scaffolding. Formulate a theory accounting for the influence of the Led Zeppelin song "Stairway to Heaven" on the social climate of the seventies with respect to this question.