PAB- 6/11/15- Research for Small Scale Theatre Tour

6/11/15- Research for Small Scale Theatre Tour

I started by looking at different venues for my tour. As its a tour I will need more than one venue as it will involve traveling to different locations. I started by looking for fringe theatres in Sussex, the majority of which I found in Brighton. I found two that fitted the tour well and would be easy to hire due to comparatively low costs. The two I found where the Lantern Theatre Brighton and The Marlborough Theatre also situated in Brighton. These venues only need a hire fee to be payed and then the theatre company keeps all of the money made in ticket sales. I decided I should have five performances at each which would cost £800 to hire each venue, in total £1600 (including tech crew hire from the venues themselves.) After this I decided that the tour should then travel to Worthing's Connought Theatre due to it having a large number of seats. To hire the Connought for two nights would cost £1332 making the total cost of the venue hire £2932.
I also looked at advertising as if I am going to be able to fill a good number of seats at the Connought or the other two theatres I am going to need people to know about it. The two fringe theatres allow free online advertising on their website if you hire the venue for a performance. I got the cheapest quote for poster and flyers from a printing website (stressfreeprint.co.uk) and would be able to get 100 posters and 500 flyers for just under £100.
As I am doing a tour of a devised piece of theatre I do not need performance rights this will allow me to use the money for other expenditures like set.
I found the online prices for some of the the set needed for the tour, two door frames costing £69.98 in total (loveskirting.co.uk) and silver paint to paint them costing another £10.
I have also got a quote for the cost of having programs printed to be sold at the shows, it would cost £110.03 for one hundred programs (stressfreeprint.co.uk).
I also researched possible local sponsors and settled upon the Worthing Herald as they sponsor quite a few local projects and I also looked into the sponsorship of Arts Council England as they sponsor many thatre and performance projects.