Typical Services
Initial Services
We provide arts management advice on the viability of your project. In tandem with this, we provide advice on other key inputs such as project cost estimates, footprint, heritage and planning requirements. We have extensive experience in working with client stakeholder groups and early engagement to ensure project success.
Providing a mixture of precedent venues with experience and innovation, we offer invaluable background knowledge. These include technical solutions or a series of choices, along with indicative costings of completed projects to inform and define a project scope. We can also supplement this advice with a fundraising strategy and business modelling to secure early confidence in the project foundation.
Services include:
· Feasibility reports and needs analysis
· Options appraisals
· Feasibility, planning and management studies
· Business plans
· Funding plans and leads to sponsorship
· Market and needs assessments
· Feasibility studies
· Safety audits and condition surveys
Client Representative Services
Some of our clients use our expertise as expert project managers of performing arts projects to run the project on their behalf or supplement the expertise within the client team.
Services include:
· Stakeholder consultation
· Briefs and schedules development
· Overall project organisation and implementation
· Project estimates
· Team assembly and appointment process
· Project management services
· Programming and operational planning
· FF&E and RDS management
Theatre and Venue Design
This covers every aspect of the building that affects the performance. We work with architects and engineers on the layout of the backstage and front of house areas to ensure operational efficiency.
Services include:
· Front of House design including:
Box office and cloakroom design
Support and storage spaces for the FOH areas
WC planning for venues
Universal access
Street to seat signage
Platform performance areas
· Backstage planning including:
Access for deliveries, scenery and performers
Stage and technical support space design
Get-In and loading bay design
Dressing room and green room planning
Backstage support spaces such as wardrobe, make-up and rehearsal rooms
Auditorium Design
We undertake extensive research with our clients to ensure that the brief for the auditorium is well defined. We ensure there is a clear definition of the range of art forms that the theatre will host, and that the scale and technical requirements are understood and defined.
Services include:
· Auditorium form
· Precedents and scale comparatives
· 2D & 3D sightline studies
· Seating layouts and capacities
· Flexible format variations
· Bespoke seat design and specification
· Seat pricing strategies
Stage Engineering
Choosing the right sort of engineering for your project can have a significant cost impact on your project. Our Engineers and Project Managers have extensive experience in the broad array of stage engineering solutions, with a track record in both solid tested and reliable systems, as well as engineering innovations.
Services include:
· Cost management
· Development and options
· Integration and coordination of technical installations within the building’s architecture
· Risk assessments
· Working with manufacturers to ensure the most appropriate solutions
· Structural and electrical loading detailing
· Options on technical and stage engineering solutions
· Procurement strategy
· Specifications
· Contract document preparation
· Tender evaluation
· Monitoring installations and reporting on progress
· Commissioning and witness testing
· Staff training
Stage Lighting
Our Stage Lighting Designers originate from a practiced theatre lighting background. Using light as their paintbrush, many of our designers are still lighting shows in various theatres around the world. We advise on the technical infrastructure, lighting positions, integration and loose equipment as well as safe access and electrical load requirements.
Services include:
· Cost management
· Development and options studies
· Integration and coordination of technical installations within the building’s architecture
· Risk assessments
· Working with manufacturers to ensure the most appropriate solutions
· Structural and electrical loading detailing
· Options on technical and engineering solutions
· Procurement strategy
· Specifications
· Contract document preparation
· Tender evaluation
· Monitoring installations and reporting on progress
· Commissioning and witness testing
· Staff training
Audio Visual
Performance venues rely on connectivity across the whole site for both production systems and communication. We ensure that venues are specified with a well-connected infrastructure and that the show’s sound system is appropriately detailed to achieve excellent sound and vision systems for your production.
Services include:
· Cost management
· Development and options studies with clients and design teams to find the most appropriate solutions for specific needs
· Integration and coordination of technical installations within the building’s architecture
· Risk assessments
· Working with manufacturers to ensure the most appropriate solutions
· Structural and electrical loading detailing
· Options on technical and engineering solutions
· Procurement strategy
· Specifications
· Contract document preparation
· Tender evaluation
· Monitoring installations and reporting on progress
· Commissioning and witness testing
· Staff training
Unusual Projects
As live theatre can happen anywhere we are often asked to advise on unusual projects. Examples of this include a demountable (pop-up) theatre based on the historical Rose Theatre for the Royal Shakespeare Company. We also have extensive experience of creating highly serviced ‘empty spaces‘ within which a variety of very different auditoria can be created, A good example of this includes the new Waterfront Theatre for The Esplanade Theatre Company in Singapore that provides flexible seating formats of varying scales.