Format
Stage show
A single held moment for the whole room. The format most often booked for the wrong reason, and the one with the most to lose.
Fifteen to forty-five minutes, performed to a seated audience, usually between dinner and whatever follows it.
It is the only format that makes the entire room share the same experience at the same time, which is precisely why it is worth doing well.
The three failures we see most
The running order slips and the act goes on forty minutes late to a room that has been sitting for three hours.
Sightlines were never checked, and a third of the room watches a screen instead of a person.
Nobody asked about sound, so the performer works through a radio mic shared with the auctioneer.
We ask for the running order before we shortlist, because a stage act that is wrong for a 10pm slot is wrong regardless of how good it is.
Technical requirements are collected from the performer and sent to you unprompted, seven days out.
Typically €4,000–15,000 for a twenty to thirty minute set. Multi-day and multi-performer briefs are quoted separately.
Our fee is separate, flat, set by the brief, and quoted before we build a shortlist — so it does not move with which performer you choose. How it works.
Gala dinners · Award ceremonies · Conferences · Cruise theatres
Describe the event. We will recommend two or three performers who fit it, with the reasoning written down — and tell you plainly when the answer is none of them.
- Gala dinners and awardsLong evenings with a fixed running order, where the entertainment's job is to hold a room that has been sitting for hours.
- Corporate eventsWhere the booker is professionally exposed and the audience did not choose to be there. The most demanding brief in the category.
- MentalismPerformance built on thought rather than objects. It travels better than magic across languages, and worse across bad rooms.