Give out programs to ticket holding customers (not festival participants who received them in registration packets).
Collect or tear tickets (host option)
Festival Participants may enter if they have their name tag. Visitors must purchase a ticket at the Box Office. Check for name tag or ticket before EACH PLAY.
If a Student or Adult Festival participant has lost his/her name tag, send him/her to the Box Office/Registration with their director.
Please tell visitors to keep their tickets so that they can get in and out between plays.
There are usually different tickets for each play session. Visitors must purchase tickets for each session.
No food is allowed in the theater.
If you see someone enter with a camera, politely inform them that NO picture taking is allowed. (with or without flash)
It is a Festival rule that no one may enter or exit during a performance. The reason for this is that the disturbance of a door opening and closing and people moving about in the theater can cause a distraction which would destroy the “suspension of disbelief” established by the play in progress. This would put that show at a disadvantage. Use common sense. If someone is going to be ill, let them out as QUIETLY as possible if it is truly an emergency. Open and close the door for them. Learn how to do this quietly before festival begins.
Visitors who arrive late may not know this rule. Be polite but firm. Do not let anyone into the theater once a show has begun. It is convenient to rig a TV in the lobby connected to a camera in the house if possible so that late comers may watch. If there is an emergency, the adult in the box office should take care of it.
After a performance, there will be a short break while adjudicators collect their thoughts. The adjudicators will then begin their oral public critique. At this time close the doors and let no one in or out during the critique.
During critiques, the door guards/ushers must remind those in the lobby to remain quiet
Those who are stationed in the lobby during the performances may also need to keep a close watch on concessions and cash box if there are any in the area.
The only exception to the non-entry rule is when the current performance requires the cast to enter through the house.
NOTE: IT WILL BE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE HOUSE MANAGER TO GIVE THE WORD TO CLOSE THE DOORS.