The document provides details about the student's role as part of the front of house team for a contemporary dance show being held over two nights at Arley Hall & Gardens. The student's responsibilities will include setting up the front area, providing customer service, organizing refreshments, payments, and overall event organization. They will need items like cups, jugs, trays, menus, refreshments, a counter, and float. Floor plans show where coats and belongings will be kept, the two performance spaces and audience areas, and where refreshments will be sold. The student asks questions about entrances/exits, refreshments, audience waiting areas, and where dancers will get ready. Their manager will answer questions and ensure responsibilities

1. 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

2. Floor Plan
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
the two
different
staging areas
and audience
will be sat.
This is where any
refreshments or
snacks will be sold
during the interval.
This is where I
will be asked to
clean up after
the interval
Questions I need to ask:
1.
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3.
4.
Entrance and exits of all dancers and audience members?
What refreshments are being sold?
Where the audience will be waiting before the show?
Where the dancers will be getting ready?
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

3. Running order
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

4. 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.