For arts centre and venue directors, negotiating and contracting with production companies and promoters has always been a key and important task. During Covid a sharp and urgent focus on Force Majeure cancellation and clauses as well as guarantees, safety, insurance, and indemnification suggested that most pre-Covid contracts needed updating.
We have worked with solicitor Andrea Martin of MediaLawyer Solicitors to draft new sample contracts for venues contracting with production companies and promoters. We expect that these Venue and Production Company and Venue and Promoter Sample Contracts will cover most venue agreements. They replace all previous versions of Theatre Forum sample contracts which you may have used in the past. They are available to download, edit, and are designed to be easily customised for your agreements with sample clauses that you can include, amend, or leave out.
We would like to thank the many Arts Centre and Venue Directors and Producers who have already contributed their experience and expertise to help us update these sample contracts. We hope that you and your colleagues find them useful in future negotiations.