Hi, everyone! I hope everyone is doing well and are looking forward to the premiere of ‘The Truth About Bedtime…’ in just two days time!
We want to ensure that our audience will be relaxed and will feel included in our performance, as they enter the auditorium we are going to greet, chat and serve digestive biscuits and hot chocolate, as “hot chocolate, is a well-known mood booster” (White, 2014). We are also going serve camomile tea for our dairy, gluten free and vegan audience. Arts Council England strive to make sure art is available “for everyone” (Arts Council England, 2018). Therefore, we want to make sure that we include everyone from our audience and that they all will have the opportunity to relax and engage with all cast members. Including everyone in our performance was important our company, and so was attracting people who do not often attend theatre. Our theatre space is designed to not look like a typical theatre, and allow more wheelchair accessibility in our space, for us to reach out to a wider audience.
Performing in Lincoln Performing Arts Centre means that we are able to contact their café bar, zing, and borrow a hot water boiler, which will help us ensure that our process and pre-set will run as smoothly as possible. This also means that I have been in contact with zing café manager and were asked to fill in a food safety disclaimer form, which can be found in our technical documents. I also need to make the audience aware of any allergy information regarding the hot drinks and biscuits. Therefore, I have created an allergy advice notice that will be clearly displayed in the serving area and will make sure that the cast members involved in serving the hot chocolate and biscuits are aware of the notices and the allergy information themselves to help answer any inquiries. We will also add stickers of our company logo onto the cups we will be using, which will hopefully make the audience, remembers the company more, and make them feel more included in our piece.
If we decide to continue ‘The Truth About Bedtime…’ after university and still want to serve hot drinks beforehand, I think it may be best for our company to invest in our own hot water boiler, as some places may not be able to borrow us one, having our own will ensure we keep the performance consistent. I found one available on amazon for £39.99.
L.F
Works Cited
Amazon (2018) Oypla Electrical 10L Catering Hot Water Boiler Tea Urn Coffee. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Oypla-Electrical-Catering-Boiler-Coffee/dp/B00IEA0LFC/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1527160828&sr=8-3&keywords=hot+water+dispensers+catering [accessed on 19 May 2018].
Arts Council England (2018) Our five goals for arts and culture. Available from https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/about-us/our-mission-and-strategy-0 [accessed on 19 May 2018].
White, D. (2014) 5 Healthy Reasons to Drink Hot Chocolate. Womanitely, 18 December. Available from https://womanitely.com/healthy-reasons-drink-hot-chocolate/ [accessed on 19th May 2018].
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Cups: McConnell, H. (2018) Sherbet Lemon Cups [Image]. [Accessed on 19th May].
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