A Guide To Amateur Performance Fees

Category	Type of work	UK, Northern Ireland & Eire (fees shown are sterling)	USA (fees shown are in US Dollars)	Canada (fees shown are in Canadian dollars)	Euro (not applicable in the UK)
A	Class A Full Length Play	£70 / £60	$90 / $70	$140 / $120	€100
B	Standard Full Length Play	£60 / £50	$80 / $65	$130 / $115	€80
C	Full length adapted plays	£50	$65	$115	€60
D	One-act Play	£40 / £35	$50 / £45	$90 / $85	€40
E	Unstaged readings	£40 minimum	$40 minimum	$55 minimum	€25 minimum
F	Extracts	£40 minimum	$40 minimum	$55 minimum	€25 minimum
G	Musical & Opera performance	Negoitiable	Negoitiable	Negoitiable	Negoitiable

Musical & Opera score hire £75 returnable deposit. £50 per full score for 3 months hire plus £20 per month thereafter

With the exception of Extracts, the amounts shown are payable PER PERFORMANCE. Where two amounts are shown, the first is for the initial performance, the second is for each subsequent performance.

For touring productions and for theatres seating more than 400 the royalty will be negotiated individually.

For any country not mentioned above, please contact ABR for a quotation.

Please note:

The above table of charges is a guideline only. For further details you must call us for an application form or write in with all details of your proposed production (including dates, venue name, place, seating capacity and ticket prices).

Provision of these details does not constitute a licence to perform.

Payment of agreed fees must be made before the first performance and your application for a licence must be made before your first rehearsal.

Amateur performance rights are not always made available to companies, so you must check availability before you start preparing for a production.

In the UK amateur script and performance enquiries are handled by the following companies:

Samuel French Ltd Nick Hern Books Ltd Josef Weinberger Ltd

www.samuelfrench-london.co.uk info@nickhernbooks.demon.co.uk general.info@jwmail.co.uk / www.josef-weinberger.com

In the USA many amateur script and performance enquiries are handled by the following companies:

Samuel French Inc Dramatic Publishing The Dramatists Play Service

www.samuelfrench.com www.dramaticpublishing.com www.dramatists.com

Foreign Rights

This Agency is associated with all the major agencies throughout Europe through whom we work. We do not work with translators direct - but will advise the appropriate agency to contact in the relevant country. For more information contact Sarah McNair.

All translations must be approved by the original author before commencement of rehearsals. Translations should not be undertaken until the appropriate permissions have been obtained.


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