Stage Curtains Are a Vital Part of Every Theatre

Theatres have been around for many hundreds of years. The Romans and the Greeks had them, and they have been part of the fabric of society for that long, as a means of entertainment. Today, we also have television, but in those days there was only the theatre in which to relax, take time off, and enjoy watching a story unfold, enacted by actors and actresses who were doing the same job as Ian McKellen, Daniel Craig, Julie Walters, Judi Dench, and the rest of them today.

If you run a theatre, you need the same sort of equipment that has been used for many years, and in particular this includes stage curtains and other stage equipment.

Front of house stage drapes are vital in that they hide from the audience the set until they open and let everyone see it. This adds to the impending excitement of the theatre-goers who are all chatting and wondering what is about to unfold. Watching a programme on the television bears no comparison to seeing real live people on a stage only a few yards away.

Of course, stage curtains are very large pieces of material and have to flow back and forth on the stage curtain track in as near as it is possible to get to silence. This requires the services of specialist manufacturers and installers who have the capabilities to produce and install such curtains. Even if you only need much smaller school stage curtains, they still need to work perfectly.

Some Thoughts about School Stage Curtains

When you have a school hall with a stage you are going to need school stage curtains, which are similar to other stage curtains, but may be somewhat smaller than those of a commercial theatre. Nonetheless, you still need school drapes that are designed and crafted to the same level as if you were a theatre.

This means that you need a curtain manufacturer who can produce school curtains to the same high standards that are required in theatres, but just on a smaller scale. You need curtains that are made of flame-retardant materials, but you probably don't need nearly as many legs as a theatre, and you probably also don't require a flybar, and may not need a fire curtain.

What you most certainly will need is a front curtain that is flame-retardant and can open and close seamlessly, which means that you need a company that not only can manufacture the curtains that you need but will also install them with all the appropriate equipment.

School curtains can obviously be manually operated or electrically operated, and if you have the budget, electrically operated is obviously the choice, only requiring someone to push a button. This can save a lot of worrying about having people to open and close curtains manually, particularly if you are short-staffed.

As for school stage curtains prices, which of course are on top of everybody's mind, they will depend very much on the length of the curtains and the width of the stage, together with whether you want them electrically operated and whether you want the supplier to install them as well.