Introduction to Unit 8- Production for Theatre Performance.

I will be working on the Arley Hall Contemporary Dance Show over two nights: Wednesday 12th February and Thursday 13th February. The venue is Arley Hall & Gardens and it will be shown in the Gallery and the Drawing Room. The audience capacity will be about 100 over the two different nights. This performance will showcase the A level dances at Priestly College within this professional, site-specific dance

event.

The Arley Hall Drawing room The Arley Hall Gallery

My Specific Job Role

My job role within this specific event is to be part of the Front of House team. Within this role I will be: setting up the front area of the venue; making sure the customers have the best experience; organising refreshments; the paying system and also the overall organisation of the event.

Equipment list

As front of house I don’t necessarily have specific equipment but I will need to bring:

Cups (if we were doing the refreshment this is what we would need) Jugs (if we were doing the refreshment this is what we would need) Trays (if we were doing the refreshment this is what we would need) Menu boards/holders Any Refreshments Counter Float (in case people pay for their ticket on the door) Sheet of audience

Floor Plan

Questions I need to ask:

1. Entrance and exits of all dancers and audience members?2. What refreshments are being sold?3. Where the audience will be waiting before the show?4. Where the dancers will be getting ready?

Running order

This is where the two different staging areas and audience will be sat.

This is the main entrance and where I will be greeting the audience member and taking their coats or collecting their tickets. And then directing them is need be to the specific room where they will be seated

This is where any refreshments or snacks will be sold during the interval.

This is where any of the audience’s member’s coats or personal belonging that they wish us to hold will be kept.

This is where I will be asked to clean up after the interval

My manager is Ashleigh. She has contacted me and answered all my questions and will talk to me before the event so I can work out any complications and make sure the production runs smoothly and efficiently. She has told me all my roles and responsibilities within Arley Hall Front of House Team such as on Wednesday 12th February, I will specifically be in charge of the box office where I will be welcoming all the audience members and collecting tickets and also at the end of the night I will be holding the Moldova collection buckets on the exit to collect as much money for the charity as possible. On the Thursday I will be in the car park helping the car directed to the spaces and also helping audience members to the entrance of Arley Hall. On both nights I will be helping out with selling all the refreshments in the interval and also help tidy up. I will also be guiding the audience members as they switch rooms during the interval, to ensure it runs smoothly.