Friday, February 27, 2009
Theatre Management 17
The final chapter in this book is called Facility and Audience Management. I guess that I never thought about facility and audience managers. It makes sense to me now, though, that the facilities manager would be in charge of keeping the theatre physically up to code and shape and that the audience manager would be the image of the operation to the public. The audience (or house) manager works for the landlord and it responsible for the rest of the housing staff (such as treasurers, ushers, doormen, and maintenance). My favorite part in this chapter was the section on handling drunks, hecklers and other disturbances. We have had a lot of trouble lately with text messagin during our performances and, although this is not nearly as bad as dealing with drunks or protestors, it is still a disturbance that needs to be dealt with in a calm manner. From what I know, our house staff does an excellent job of tackling these kinds of things.
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Your theatre management journal doesn't, perhaps, go into the level of detail I might like -- the level here is appropriate for your acting journal, which is more about what you think and how you define your process.
ReplyDeleteAs you go forward this semester, the best thing you can do is begin to connect your readings to those things you run into in the theatre -- be they projects for class or work done in the costume shop, prop shop, or production.