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Technical information - Harberton Parish Hall
The main hall is about 10.25 x 16.65 metres and contains a full-height badminton court with approved badminton quality strip lighting. Low-level wall-mounted spotlights, 5 along each side and 2 at the far end, offer an alternative form of lighting for a more intimate atmosphere, helping to lose the high roof. Large areas of curtaining, soft wall blocks and acoustic roof insulation ensure generally good acoustics for amplified and non-amplified performances.
Harberton Parish Hall has a quantity of stage lighting and a dimmer board
available for hire, but (as yet) no sound equipment of its own.
The licensed seating capacity is 180 in the main hall plus 20 on the balcony.
There are plenty of 13A power sockets around the main hall at near floor height.
Concert performances usually take place end-on or side-on in the hall. The end-on configuration allows a maximum capacity audience, avoiding possible sight line problems caused by equipment.
The modular staging system is hired separately from Harberton Parish Hall and essentially comprises three-foot square units, which can be constructed 9, 18 or 27 inches high, and the units bolted together to form a secure whole. Stage construction can take 30-60 minutes depending on size and available manpower.
The photographs below (taken 3 April 2005, concert by 4-piece 'Dr Faustus'
with support from local duo Simon Barron and Rosalind Brady) illustrate the
side-on configuration, using about 140 seats and a 27" high stage 9' deep x 15'
wide. The seating configuration was restricted in this instance by sight line
considerations concerning the stand-mounted loudspeakers. The sound desk was at
back centre of the audience and a long multicore was taken around the wall at
floor level at the far end of the hall. The lighting was driven separately from
the balcony.
Click a thumbnail for a larger view - each will open in a separate browser
window.
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| Stage 15' wide, side on | Stage 9' deep, side on | Bar / merch area, balcony | 140 seats, side-on |
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| View from balcony | Back corner view, duo | ditto, 4-piece on stage | Side on, no low-levels |
A typical end-on seating/stage configuration for the maximum licensed seating capacity (180+20): 7 seats either side of a central aisle, 14 rows stage right (less a couple of seats round the sound desk), 12 rows stage left to leave bar space at the back, 20 seats on the balcony.
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| Stage 15' wide, 9' deep, end on | Bar / merch area at rear left, balcony above |
