City of Westminster College Level 3 Performing & Production Arts students visited backstage at the National Theatre last week. This was a great opportunity to observe production and technical crew in action as they toured the workshops and backstage areas of the Lyttleton, Olivier and Dorfman theatres.

Quotes from the students:

"It was really interesting to see how many people work backstage on making a stage show happen"

"I didn't realise how many different job roles have to work together on making the shows at the National"

"I was really interested in the sound check and the special effect of making it rain on stage"