Theatre Green Book PRODUCTIONS Toolkit – Touring and Co-production

It is important to establish shared goals around sustainability with co-producing partners. This section highlights specific areas that you may   want to include in your Co-production agreement.

Essential Commitments 

• Commitment to working together on the Theatre Green Book, at an agreed standard (eg Baseline, Intermediate or Advanced): 
• If they need to build any set it should be built using the Green Book aims, with materials tracked for reuse and recycling.
• If they are going to provide tech or technical support then they will need to work to the guidelines in the Theatre Green Book.
• Creative and Crew travel – commit to working together to minimise the movement of people in prep (more online meetings) and during the show (agreed travel policy between co-producers).

Additional Commitments

Are there additional areas for potential collaboration between you on sustainability? These may include: 

• Audience Travel incentives for green travel.
• Energy reporting, is there an opportunity for a deeper level of data sharing with co-producers such as including reporting on audience travel.
• Programming and exclusion zones.
• Opportunities for co-funding sustainability aims, eg
• To resource the development of each partners capability to work sustainably through training.
• Training technicians to deliver a show to reduce crew travel.
• Consider collaboration on engagement and wrap activity to engage audiences in sustainability and environmental goals.
• Opportunities for support with skills sharing, where big tours with lots of touring crew could share skills with local techs, they could in turn pass on to smaller tours/less experienced touring crew. This would increase the pool of skills in any local area to support smaller scale companies to travel with smaller teams to reduce travel.