Sadler’s Wells is much like the Centre in many ways (obviously) although there are some understandable differences. At the Centre you can often be queuing in the Green Room (our canteen) surrounded by opera singers warming their vocal chords: “Can I have chips with my aria please?” Here at Sadler’s Wells the environment is equally outwardly creative, although there’s far more stretching and sinew on show.
Being surrounded by stupendous singers or fantastically fit dancers is not good for your health; I feel tone deaf and mega fat, particularly the latter. I need to start eating tissue but they don’t make pie flavoured tissue so what’s the point. Truthfully though, I love it. What I’m trying to say is that working in this kind of environment, these enclosures of talent is completely stimulating and almost always mesmerising (even if I feel like the black sheep amongst the flock). Talent is attractive, it’s sexy. Fact.
I think that those of us who work in the industry can sometimes become quite blasé about it. I mean the Centre is an amazing building right? But it would be empty in every sense of the word without talented artists to fill it. There’s no agenda here, just my mumbled musings after I was fortunate enough to hear some truly wonderful voices sing proud today. So why not get out and watch something? Just look at the live performances on offer, not just at Wales Millennium Centre but Wales wide. From musicals to open-mic sessions, surely there’s something to suit every taste – its lush really isn’t it?!
So this week I’m going to try and get my fix and see Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Points of View (pic) and Peter Gill’s The Sleepers Den (as well as watch X Factor of course– it’s just so annoyingly addictive!) Diolch am ddarllen.
(By the way I have found somewhere to live. I'm in Tulse Hill, in case you were concerned)
Points of View v good. Reckon you might just love In The Upper Room.
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