About and contact
Built for the person doing it at eleven at night
The Half Call started from one observation: almost none of the seven weeks before an opening is spent on the thing anybody joined an amateur company to do. It is spent on derivation and coordination — and both of those are work a machine should be doing.
The name
The half is the half-hour call: the moment, thirty-five minutes before curtain, by which every member of the company must be in the building and signed in. It is the instant a roomful of individuals becomes a company. It seemed the right thing to name this after.
What we believe about this market
Amateur and community theatre is not a smaller, sadder version of the professional kind. It is a different thing with its own standards, its own audiences and, frequently, better discipline about the get-out. What it does not have is anyone paid to do the paperwork.
So the product is built around the stage manager rather than the director, priced per production rather than per person, and designed to be readable by a sixty-year-old on an iPad in a badly lit hall. Those three choices decide most of the rest.
We would rather tell you what is not finished than find out later that you committed a production to something that was not there. The current state of the build is on the home page, kept honest.
Talk to us
There is no sales team, no demo to book and nobody will telephone your chairman. There is an email address and a person reading it.
General questions
contact@thehalfcall.com
Including “does it do X”, “when will X work”, and “our
committee needs to know Y before it can vote”.
Rights holders and licensors
contact@thehalfcall.com
We would rather have the conversation early. Our position is set
out in full here.
Billing and invoices
contact@thehalfcall.com
Including groups that cannot pay by card and need another way through.
Privacy and your data
contact@thehalfcall.com
Access, correction and deletion requests. The notice is here.
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Who you are contracting with
This block is unfinished and must not ship as it stands. It needs the trading name, the legal entity or sole-trader status, the registered or service address, any company number, and the confirmed mailbox addresses used above — contact@thehalfcall.com is assumed throughout this site and has to actually exist and be monitored.
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