What a feeling!

So much to say about our penultimate rotation, construction. I loved learning metal work and carpentry skills from scratch. We learned to cut, grind, bend and weld metal which I found incredibly interesting. We then learned how to correctly join wood together and cut it down to size using machinery. We also covered the really useful basics of using a hand saw, hammer and drill/driver. It was really great to understand how to use all the equipment and to gain such a large amount of skills in so little time.

I got the chance to use these skills into practise in 'build week' for the RADA productions; we made and cladded the flats for The Sugar Wife (designed by Ellen Gould) built a girder and added some detailing with a skill saw to the sliding door in As You Like It (designed by James Cotterill). It was great to learn new skills and techniques from the student scenery builders and HODs (team leaders HOD which stands for Head Of Departments) for the shows as well as from the lovely construction tutors – Mark and Jeff.

Venue fit ups were so exciting! The Vanburgh fit up took about two days and it had to be really well planned and efficient as we had a huge flat to assemble in the venue then fix to the flying bars. We also put together an entire forest behind it which needed to be structurally sound, the whole thing was tiring but so much fun and now I head off on my Easter break - phew! Happy Easter all x