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译文有感（二八八）：伦敦的萨德勒威尔斯剧院

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伦敦的萨德勒威尔斯剧院

译文有感（二八八）：伦敦的萨德勒威尔斯剧院

在伦敦Rosebery大道上的萨德勒威尔斯剧院又称沙德勒之井剧院，主剧场拥有1500个座位，场地配备一新，设备现代化。拥有固定的剧团、艺人和公司在此演出和创作，在此能够欣赏到原创的芭蕾舞和舞台剧。该剧院成立于1683年，是英国最古老和最权威的舞蹈剧院，致力于给伦敦观众带来国际和英国一流水平的舞蹈，最大的特色是舞蹈跨越文化界限，吸引不同的观众。自成立后的300年来，萨德勒威尔斯剧院创造和呈现了从现代舞、嘻哈舞到探戈舞、弗拉曼柯舞乃至芭蕾舞代表的所有舞蹈节目秀。
译文有感（二八八）：伦敦的萨德勒威尔斯剧院



译文有感（二八八）：伦敦的萨德勒威尔斯剧院
中国的书法在萨德勒威尔斯剧院展示

译文有感（二八八）：伦敦的萨德勒威尔斯剧院
壮族舞蹈在萨德勒威尔斯剧院演出

译文有感（二八八）：伦敦的萨德勒威尔斯剧院
萨德勒威尔斯剧院在伦敦的位置


维基百科中的萨德勒威尔斯剧院
Sadler's Wells Theatre
译文有感（二八八）：伦敦的萨德勒威尔斯剧院
Sadler's Wells Theatre, September 2015

Sadler's Wells Theatre is a performing arts venue in Clerkenwell, London, England located on Rosebery Avenue. The present-day theatre is the sixth on the site since 1683. It consists of two performance spaces: a 1,500 seat main auditorium and the Lilian Baylis Studio, with extensive rehearsal rooms and technical facilities also housed within the site. Sadler's Wells is renowned as one of the world's leading dance venues. As well as a stage for visiting companies, the theatre is also a producing house, with a number of associated artists and companies that produce original works for the theatre. Sadler's Wells is also responsible for the management of the Peacock Theatre in the West End, during times not used by the London School of Economics.

History
First theatre and pleasure gardens
译文有感（二八八）：伦敦的萨德勒威尔斯剧院
Sadler's Wells, 1745 (Robert Chambers, p.73, 1832)

Richard Sadler opened a 'Musick House' in 1683, the second public theatre newly opened in London after the Restoration, the first being the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The name Sadler's Wells originates from his name and the rediscovery of monastic springs, which previously served St John's Priory Clerkenwell, on his property. The iron rich water was thought to provide health benefits. As such, Sadler claimed that drinking the water from the wells would be effective against 'dropsy, jaundice, scurvy, green sickness and other distempers to which females are liable – ulcers, fits of the mother, virgin's fever and hypochondriacal distemper.'
In 1698 Thomas Guidott, a doctor of physick who popularised the waters of Bath, wrote what he called 'A true and exact account of Sadlers Well, or, The new mineral-waters lately found out at Islington treating of its nature and virtues: together with an enumeration of the chiefest diseases which it is good for, and against which it may be used, and the manner and order of taking of it.' In modern times the theatre continued to serve the chalybeate water and use it for air conditioning.
This brought the health-giving properties of the mineral waters to national attention and an aristocratic clientele was soon attracted from round the country. Thus, this still quite rural location became famous for both water and for music, but as more wells were dug and the exclusiveness of Sadler's Wells declined, so did the quality of the entertainment provided – along with the quality of the clientele who were described as 'vermin trained up to the gallows' by a contemporary, while, by 1711, Sadler's Wells was characterized as 'a nursery of debauchery.'
By the mid-18th century, the existence of two 'Theatres Royal' – in Covent Garden and Drury Lane – severely limited the ability of other London theatres to perform any drama combined with music, and Sadler's Wells continued its downward spiral.

Second and third theatres
Since the Theatres Royal confined themselves to operating during the autumn and winter, Sadler's Wells filled the gap in the entertainment market with its summer season, traditionally launched on Easter Monday. Thomas Rosoman, manager from 1746 to 1771, established the Wells's pedigree for opera production and oversaw the construction of a new stone theatre, in just seven weeks – at a cost of £4,225; it opened in April 1765.
In the latter half of the 18th century the theatre presented a wide variety of productions. There were patriotic plays and pageants such as 'A Fig For The French', which was produced to boost national morale after a heavy British defeat in a sea-battle off Grenada at the hands of the French and Spanish fleets. A stirring spectacle reflecting the Fall of the Bastille won from the previously hostile Public Advertiser newspaper the enthusiastic review: '...finer scenes of greater effect have not been produced at any Theatre for many years'.
译文有感（二八八）：伦敦的萨德勒威尔斯剧院
A performance at Sadler's Wells, circa 1808.

During the early years of the 19th century, many famous actors appeared at the theatre, including Edmund Kean, as well as popular comedians such as Joseph Grimaldi who for all his gifts as a dramatic actor, is best remembered as the creator of 'Joey the Clown' complete with the rouge half-moons on either cheek. However, the period was characterised by much public drunkenness and loutish behaviour, and the rural location prompted the management to provide escorts for patrons after dark to conduct them into central London.
With the construction of a large tank, flooded from the nearby New River, an Aquatic Theatre was used to stage extravagant naval melodramas, such as The Siege of Gibraltar. The theatre also presented successful adaptations of popular novels of the time, such as A Christmas Carol and The Old Curiosity Shop, which ran during January 1841.
Just as Sadler's Wells seemed at its lowest ebb, an unexpected champion arrived in the shape of the actor-manager Samuel Phelps. His advent coincided with the passing of the Theatres Act 1843 which broke the duopoly in drama of the Theatres Royal and so Phelps was able to introduce a programme of Shakespeare to the Wells. His productions (from 1844 to 1862), notably of Macbeth (1844), Antony and Cleopatra (1849) and Pericles (1854), were much admired. The well-known actress Isabella Glyn made her first notable appearance as Lady Macbeth on this stage.
In latter part of the 19th century the pendulum swung back to melodrama by the 1860s. This period of the theatre's history is affectionately depicted in Pinero's play Trelawny of the 'Wells' (1898), which portrays Sadler's Wells as outmoded by the new fashion for realism. The theatre declined until, by 1875, plans to turn it into a bath house were proposed and, for a while, the new craze of roller skating was catered to, as the theatre was converted into a roller-skating rink and later a prize fight arena. The theatre was condemned as a dangerous structure in 1878.

Fourth theatre
译文有感（二八八）：伦敦的萨德勒威尔斯剧院
Sadler's Wells in 1879

After re-opening as a theatre in 1879, it became a music hall and featured performers including Marie Lloyd and Harry Champion. Roy Redgrave, founder of the theatrical dynasty also appeared there.
In 1896, the theatre was converted into a cinema. Patrons were amazed by the moving pictures of the Theatregraph with film of Persimmon

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