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The loud squeal produced over speakers when a microphone that is on gets to close to the speakers.

Tags: Sound


False Stage

A special stage floor laid a few inches above the real stage, to allow the running of steel cables to pull trucks across the stage

Tags: Stage


Fader

The control knob or slide that provides the means of controlling the output level of a lantern or amplifier.

Fader SSL

Tags: Lighting, Sound


Front of House

Areas of a theatre on the audience side of the proscenium wall or stage area are called FOH.

Tags: Theatre


Front Light

A light coming from downstage of the subject, generally brought in 45 degrees off full front.

Frontlight

Tags: Lighting


Front Cloth

Sometimes a painted cloth is brought down near to the house curtain for a front scene to be played on the forestage. This front cloth usually masks scene changes behind it.

Tags: Stage


French Flat

Arrangement of several flats battened together and flown as one unit on a set of lines.

Tags: Stage


Framed Cloth

Scenic cloth battened all around.

Tags: Stage