Week 1

Hello, all! This is my blog about Week 1 of working Box Office for the Third Year plays.
The three plays are The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, Ripen our Darkness, and Blood Wedding.
I have started looking at different options for selling tickets.
One of the options I am exploring is the possibility of using the website EventBrite to sell tickets through the Bathway website. The EventBrite "Event creator" allows users to create a seating chart for reserved seating, or simply state how many tickets are available for non-reserved seating. This option would make it possible for a wider range of people to buy tickets, and allow members of the public to buy tickets without venturing to the Bathway site to visit a physical Box Office. I feel that this would increase interest, particurlarly among the student body of the University of Greenwich. Members of the Creative Writing and English departments, many of whom are encouraged to see plays alongside their course, might be interested if they only had to venture to Woolwich for the play itself and not to buy tickets beforehand.
Another item which was discussed in the Production Meetings on Thursday 21st January was the option of creating ticket deals, including ideas such as purchasing a Burger with your ticket for a certain price which would be less than what the burger and ticket would cost if purchased separately. This would create certain difficulties relating to heating or storing food on site, but would be an extra attraction for guests .
Although it was decided that this was for the attention of Marketing, I note it here because it seems to me that anything relating to ticket sales should also be dealt with by Box Office, and as I am to design the tickets, I would surely need to design different ones for each deal to denote who had purchased food and who had not.
I am not yet certain if it is possible to add food deals to tickets purchased on EventBrite. I will investigate that further after speaking with Dave about whether EventBrite is a viable option to expand the Bathway Box Office.