How successful were your phone calls in gaining information and quotes?
When I phoned different venues I found that most people were happy to tell me information, however there was some restricted information for some venues. For example the Connaught wasn't able to give out some information, however they were happy to answer my questions.
Did you learn anything from the first call that helped you in the 2nd or for future research contact?
After my first call I decided to look more at smaller venues as the bigger ones had much higher costs. Because this is a small scale tour we will not be able to afford these prices as our budgets are too low. If we keep in smaller venues we will be able to keep in our budget, as well as this we may even be able to make a small profit.
How is your small scale theatre tour planning changing or adapting in response to the research you have done?
Upon finding out information about the hire costs of the Connaught studio I have decided to change the venue to another one. I made this decision because my theatre company is very small scale and therefore we do not have a large budget. They have 250 seats. so even though they are quite a large venue, we do not need a venue this big. I came to this conclusion because when phoning them they said that because of the size of the company we would only be likely to sell 60% of the seats. This means that only 135 seats will be filled, if these were sold at £10 for adults and £6 concessions, total ticket sales would only be about £1210. Because the cost of hiring this venue out is £2940 we wouldn't even sell enough tickets to cover this cost and this is without costume, set or any other costs like marketing.
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