Oh what a Twitter! – The Production Blog

9 August 2013

Like most, I do find that the social network can be such a double edged sword, sometimes it is easy to forget who is following you – yesterday while I was at the scenic workshop going through the model for Sherlock’s Last Case, I spotted an old fashioned school blackboard in a skip.

Perfect! This is just the item we need for our forthcoming tour of Romeo and Juliet. So, having deftly removed it from the skip and negotiated with the owner, I then emailed some photos to Clive Judd, the Director, who is currently having rave reviews for a show at Edinburgh.
Fortunately, Clive is a friend and well used to the Watermill ways when it comes to recycling and so took my tweets about propping shows from rubbish skips well and joined in the banter .

Our ongoing mission to find ways to be greener and my continual batting on about it has really paid off, particularly as we have also just been contacted by Mr Robbs from the local firm Kosnic. It did help that he is an ex-youth theatre member and his mother was our wardrobe supervisor a while back.
As a company, Kosnic specialise in new low energy LED lamps to replace the current tungsten units and they asked if we would trial their units. Now, the highlight of their new lamps is an LED replacement candle lamp and with our new restaurant refurbishment and the two locally crafted chandeliers, what could be a better combination. The joy is that not only do they look great, but they dim and don’t flicker on just a normal domestic dimmer.

If you are around the Watermill do pop in and have a look at them; they are very funky and are saving us quite a bit on the electric bill.

Oh blimey I’m beginning to sound like Kirstie Allsopp!

Lawrence T Doyle
Production Manager