The last things we had to consider before the play went ahead were the refreshments that we were going to provide on the day. This was proven harder than we expected. Everyone’s personal preferences were getting caught in the final decision. What we needed to be thinking about was what would be suitable to our target audience (young children). Suzi (course leader) has 2 children of her own, so her input was very important within the discussion. We looked up on Tesco how much it would cost to buy the refreshments that she would buy for her children.
Along the way to our final decision, Jack came up with what sounded like a good idea at the time. His idea, was to create a ‘pick and mix’. This would be where the child could pick 5 items of food or drink that they wish. This would help guarantee that the child was happy with what they wanted. However we decided that this would not be the best option we could provide. This was because it would prove quite costly and exceed our budget. It would also make things very complicated and if children wanted 5 packets of crisps then we could find ourselves running out of items very quickly.
We finally decided on what we were going to sell at the performance and we used Tesco’s shop online to help us price our items. This then lead onto the poster that we were going to use to advertise the refreshments. The yellow group produced a poster which they then gave to Suzi. Me and Suzi studied the poster and decided that it wasn’t of a standard we believed could sell refreshments or attract attention. We decided to slightly adjust the poster and make it more attractive. We added colour, pictures and adjusted the alignments so that everything was in line with each other.
After we had resolved the refreshments, the idea arose of doing a ‘guess the name of the monkey’. It would cost £1 to guess a name from the list that I created by choosing 30 names that could be suitable for the monkey. The name was chosen as ‘Mario’ and all that was left to do was for a child to guess the right name. They would then win a monkey teddy which tied in with the title of the play. This became another way for us to raise money which we could then reinvest into more performances that we may put together.
