Consideration of Health and Safety

Within the production of this we attempted to go about it's creation in realistic veiws. One such realistic thing that comes with nay performance is the health and saftey requerments of the venue to ensure both the actors and the audiances saftey in the event of an emegancy.

Inside the book "Practicle Theater: A post-16 approach" edited by Sally Mackery, there is small list of bullet points for consideration on page 367:
"·         means of access and escape;
 ·         public address installation;
 ·         the staging arrangements;
 ·         sight line;
 ·         production details; barriers and fencing;
 ·         the evacuation plan
 ·         mixers, delay towers and temporary towers;
 ·         policing, security and stewarding, first aid service and emergency provision."
The means of access and escape were easly identifyable within the performance, acces leading in from the front of the room, and a clearly marked fire escape to the outdoors at the back of the room close to the audiance.
 As we were only acting in a small space, public adress to the audiance was easly done via our own voice, and so no such installation of devices were neceracary.
The staging arrangements were gone over with the teachers in question, making sure that the performance space was clear for the props and actors to have ease of movement and acting.
I don't belive line of sight would have been an issue for any member of the audiance, with it being such a small space and everyone sat on the same level, they should have been easly aware of the stage and their enviroment.
 The production details had all gone through to the teacher for the performance to go ahead, everything that was both needed and easly viewed as not needed to know went through, to make sure that in any eventuality the health and saftey of all partys involved were taken into consideration.
As mentioned many times, it was a small audiance, and we're not exactly well known with hundreds of rabid "fangirls" to require barriers to be put in place to stop the audiance from getting to close to the production.
By now, I'm fairly certain that the evacuation plan of the school has been drilled, in most sences of the word, into the students and teachers. If an eventuality of an emergency arose, everyone would know what to do and do it calmly.
I honstly don't know what these things are, and since it was within an indoor enviroment, I'm fairly certain they wouldn't be possible anyway. I guess making sure that they were impossible before attempting any such thing is a part of health and safety.
All of there things are taken care of within the school enviroment, and so were of no concern to us.


In "Designing for the Theatre: Second eddition" by "Francis Reid", on page 47 there is a section on stability, an extract from which is:
"An aspect of which is perhaps related rather more to actors' confidence in saftey, rather than actual safety, is the stability of the scenery."
This holds true to us, as one of our set peices (a very major one) become extremely unstable, as one of the wheels broke befor the performance. This lead it to be unfit for health and saftey requirments, unless repaired. This worried us greatly, but thankfully it was in good condition for the final performance and so was able to be used without chance of breaking anything health and saftey realated. This also impared the movement of the set, which was of concern for both health and saftey and the integraty and pace of the production.