Seating plan
Mar. 30th, 2011 01:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pallas_athenaThe Emperor Of Atlantis is going to be ace! Saturday night has sold out, and the rest of the days are selling well too. (Those who asked me to book tickets for Saturday: I've got 'em, don't panic.)
Seating is going to be... interesting. The space is an art gallery, so we're free to transform it into a sort of ragtag homemade cabaret of the sort that they might have had at Theresienstadt. We're assembling a variety of chairs, cushions and rugs for the audience to sit on. (Cue the entire production team frantically chasing down cushions.)
When we come to the performances, front-of-house will have to herd the young and lithe towards the cushions so there'll be enough actual chairs for those who really need them. The opera's only about an hour long, so I hope that's an acceptable amount of time to have to sit on a cushion.
Seating will probably go like this:
People who prefer chairs - On the balcony (15)
People who require chairs and aren't keen on stairs - at the back of the room (14 or so)
People who don't mind sitting sideways - on a bench by the wall (up to 8)
People who prefer, or can be persuaded towards, cushions - at the front of the room (25 to 30)
I just really hope there are enough chairs for those who need them, and that no one who pays for a ticket will have cause to complain. We've invited a bunch of reviewers and industry professionals, and something tells me they won't be overly keen on the whole cushion experience.
Today I collected yet another scythe (with many thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fracture242), made a hangman's noose, and exit-flyered the Young Vic. Whew.
Seating is going to be... interesting. The space is an art gallery, so we're free to transform it into a sort of ragtag homemade cabaret of the sort that they might have had at Theresienstadt. We're assembling a variety of chairs, cushions and rugs for the audience to sit on. (Cue the entire production team frantically chasing down cushions.)
When we come to the performances, front-of-house will have to herd the young and lithe towards the cushions so there'll be enough actual chairs for those who really need them. The opera's only about an hour long, so I hope that's an acceptable amount of time to have to sit on a cushion.
Seating will probably go like this:
People who prefer chairs - On the balcony (15)
People who require chairs and aren't keen on stairs - at the back of the room (14 or so)
People who don't mind sitting sideways - on a bench by the wall (up to 8)
People who prefer, or can be persuaded towards, cushions - at the front of the room (25 to 30)
I just really hope there are enough chairs for those who need them, and that no one who pays for a ticket will have cause to complain. We've invited a bunch of reviewers and industry professionals, and something tells me they won't be overly keen on the whole cushion experience.
Today I collected yet another scythe (with many thanks to
fracture242), made a hangman's noose, and exit-flyered the Young Vic. Whew.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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on 2011-04-08 05:54 pm (UTC)Could you reserve us cushions, please? Really looking forward to it. :-)
Where/when should we meet you to collect tickets?
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on 2011-04-08 10:28 pm (UTC)Otherwise there are at least 2 good pubs and a fab cake shop in the area; let me know when you might like to meet!
(Speaking of which, can I get Sam a little cake of any kind? Seeing as it's his birthday and all? If so, what does he like/dislike in cake?)
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on 2011-04-08 11:04 pm (UTC)Trying again:
Nick and I (and hopefully Jenny) will be heading to Sam's in the early afternoon or so, for sitting in his garden and generally rejoicing time. If you're free to join us and would like to, that would be smashing. :-) Failing that, one of us will give you a text in the afternoon when we know when we'll be heading to the venue area.
Cake-wise... firstly you are *fabulous*. Secondly, Sam can't usually eat sugar, which makes this a bit tricky. Your best bet (unless you know an easy source of cakes sweetened with honey or agave syrup, or can get one with a very high coconut* content...) may be something savoury that's also nommable and birthday-ish. Anything that doesn't involve peanut butter, chilli or white rice is likely to go down well. ;-)
*I don't fully understand this, but apparently coconut lowers the GI of food that contains it. Sam could explain better. :-)
Yay for you!
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on 2011-04-08 11:13 pm (UTC)Dairy is fine for him! I can't have cow-dairy, but if it's a small just-for-Sam cake this is not a problem. :-)
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