Trip To Sadler's Wells

On the 23rd of December 2008 (I forgot to post this at the time), our Diploma class took a trip to Sadler's Wells!

This came with a deal, we got to see the set design for Sadler's Wells and then we'd see an actual performance of Edward Scissorhand.

Upon our arrival, we were introduced to Sarah Jane and her two work colleagues who asked us a variety of questions about Sadler's Wells and theatres in general.

We then went on a tour of the theatre which was extremely interesting. We got to learn where the name 'Sadler's Wells" came from. A man called Sadlers found a well in the theatre thus combining the two to form 'Sadler's Wells'. The water was also sold to customers and the well is still there to this very day!

We then went to the dance studio in which the actors practice their dances on. It was exactly the same size as the real stage so the performers can get everything perfect - I found this quite interesting and a very good idea!

After that, we saw the set design for the Edward Scissorhands performance. I thought it was beautiful and I especially liked the hedges shaped in animals.

We then met 3 of the people who work at Sadler's Wells, Mark Doerfel the web designer, Nadine the project manager and the finance director Mark Rhodes.

We talked for a while about all their different jobs and roles in the theatre industry which was quite interesting and we then went on to do some group work such as sorting performances into different categories prior to age, gender, ect.

I think this was a very interesting day and I'm really looking forward to going to see the real performance of Edward Scissorhands now!