hello and welcome to the East 15 acting school in London england my name is Annelies and I will be
your unofficial tour guide today right now I'm coming up on my last term of my first year in
my MFA in acting program and before coming to the school and like starting studying here I'd never
been here in person let alone coming to England this place was much different than I expected and
google earth can only show you so much so I knew I wanted to make this unofficial virtual tour,
emphasis on the unofficial, for any potential East 15 students who were looking to come
here I wanted to get a little sneak peek as to what their future home was going to look like
and if you're somebody watching this video who isn't a future East 15 student
well I hope you enjoy this tour of the place that I call home right now coming along on
this tour with me is my lovely cameraman Keaton say hello “hi” Keaton is also in my MFA program
with me and we've been learning a lot about this place together speaking of this place
we are currently at the Loughton campus of the East 15 acting school because there are indeed
three different campuses there's this one in Loughton there's one in colchester and one
in Southend and speaking of Loughton, let us introduce you to- there is a car coming
Loughton the school is like right off the main road and to explain where this school is
we are in the town of Loughton in the region/county of Essex in the city of
London so whatever you say it's all correct but let's get out of Loughton and go into East 15.
so welcome to East 15. when you walk on campus this is like the first thing you're
going to see and it's also like the only thing you're going to see if you google this place
and this is Hatfield's house this is like the main icon of the school it's where reception is
there's some classrooms in there a lot of singing rooms are like in here they've got instruments and
pianos and whatever and then at the top of this building is where a lot of tutors and professors
offices are gonna be there's also a few other rooms in here so if you do end up coming to the
school I recommend taking a look around but you will probably get to know this building a lot
or at least take a cute picture in front of it on your first day of school
but we're gonna go to the left side of Hatfield's house and go see the back of campus
okay so our first stop on this campus tour is the new builds buildings
because they are the newest builds the newest built buildings on campus
in this building here there are a lot of movement classes that happen in here but a ton of different
type of classes can happen because in here is just a whole bunch of blank rooms that are
open for whatever you want to use it for but I would say mostly movement classes happen in here
in this smaller little section of the building I've seen music classes happen in there too if
you end up coming over here NB is what the classrooms will be listed as like NB1 or NB2
and this is actually the only building on the side of campus because if we turn this way
you'll see a big open empty field the only little interesting tidbit is that shed back there that
black shed has a lot of like furniture and props in it so if you end up doing a show here you'll
probably at some point in time come get stuff from that little shed but we're going to move from this
empty side of campus to where mainly all the main action happens and we're going to take
a tour behind Hatfields and I'm just going to speed this little journey up so if you want to
just jump to where we're going next you can go to this time stamp if not enjoy the time lapse
okay welcome to like the main side of campus uh this is where the most of the
things happen and so let's start with this building behind us which is the dance studio
this is the largest space on campus a lot of movement classes happen in here combat classes but
also seeing showcases happen in this room because there's lights and there's it's a really big space
so you can set up a little theater in there if you ever have a class in here it'll be listed as d s
and just to give you like a perspective check we just came from that little staircase over there
and in order to get into this room just on the other side of these bushes is where the entrance
is there's also bathrooms in here too the next building is this pretty building here and this
is the courtyard studios also known as the CS building because all the classes are listed as
CS CS1 CS7 whatever and this is where I would say a lot of the acting classes happen and honestly
just anything that's not movement because these rooms are the smallest on campus rehearsals happen
in here singing class articulation voice literally anything happens in here also supposedly there is
a recording studio in that room but I have yet to been in there be in there I've yet to gone in
there so maybe one day we'll see what the inside looks like but they're all just really basic
four walls some props really chill stuff also during Christmas time there's a beautiful
Christmas tree that goes here and it's like my favorite thing gonna look so pretty but we will
go ahead and turn this way where you can see like the court yard the yard I don't know what you want
to call this and it's like so pretty now that it's starting to be spring and this is where a lot of
people come out and just like chill during lunch or even some classes will happen out here too
like I saw some undergrads doing sword fighting out here we've had warm up with voice out here
every part of this small campus is used because it kind of needs to be because we don't have a lot of
space we're going to move down uh for this big conglomerate conglomerate big chunk of buildings
so this big chunk of buildings has a lot of bits to it starting with this part over here
this is where the library is now the library only takes up the top half of this building
and if you go through these double doors there's a staircase that takes you up there
and what's really great about this library is even though we're on the Loughton campus which is
really far away from the two other campuses if you find in like the catalog online at the other
campuses a book you want to check out you can actually have it sent here I haven't used that
service yet but that's cool if you need it there's also computers and it's a really nice place to
just go and like chill and study or just get away from everybody especially during lunch time
speaking of lunch time the place where we have lunch is the student union or the cafeteria or the
canteen for you British folk so in here there's cafeteria style dining where they cook fresh food
and they like make up their own recipes which is really cool but you can get some snacks here
like chips or drinks and whatnot in the evening it actually turns into a bar so if you're into
that that's available to you and this is the place where most people congregate there we go it's the
place where most people congregate because it's got chairs and tables couches a tv a foosball
table tons of fun stuff in there but that's like the main hub of campus so let's um let's
actually go down and they also serve breakfast and lunch yes they do serve breakfast at lunch
real quick perspective check there's the dance studio the courtyard studios
and then over here is Hatfield's house this beautiful brick building oh it's so pretty
okay so just to do another little bit of a perspective trick uh this is the other side
of the SU this is like the main entrance the doors that we actually walked cast on that side
won't open from the outside they're only one-way doors um but this is how most
people go into the SU there's also these tables here where people can sit and enjoy their lunch
and then that building there we go it's the front of Hatfield's house
that's where we first started in the rose garden and everything wow okay so there is one more very
important building on this campus and that is the only theater on this campus and that is
The Corbett Theatre I wish I had information like how many seats it held or whatever it's a
rather small theater there is lights and a light board and there is rage seating and this is where
2015 puts on like their main shows so we will be doing a show there next term which is really
exciting and some classes happen in here but it's not super often these doors lead you to the box
office and this is also like the main entrance to the theater there are double doors that we'll get
to in a second that is the exit but otherwise if you're coming to the thor-bit if you're coming to
the Cor-bett you're coming here before we end the tour I guess we can show off the cute little pond
honestly one of the selling points honestly yeah
this is the pond it's it's really cute and there's some benches and sometimes
you'll see people rehearsing scenes out here I've seen like acting for
the camera scenes being like taped out here there's a proper staircase or this man-made
path um yeah it's just really nice to come and sit out here it's really pretty and especially now
that the weather's getting better it's probably gonna be a good place that a lot of people come
and hang out but uh let's wrap up this tour by showing you the other side of the Corbett Theatre
all right very exciting but here is the other side of the Corbett Theatre
like I mentioned those are the double doors for the potential exodus of people after a show
this this is this is about it nothing real exciting on this side but the corporate theater
sign and we are in a parking lot um just a little no no student parking anywhere on campus so this
is only for staff and school vehicles one thing that I did want to point out is if we go this way
that's the library that's the top of the library so now you know where you are in
regards to the other side and this little path here is like my favorite little path onto campus
because it's a ramp not as many people go that way and it will take you right around
to that main courtyard area where we were where the CS buildings and
the picnic tables and all that stuff was but we are now going to go from campus and exit
oh we can't actually exit this way because it's Saturday and the gates are closed on this side
but here's another path to exit the school we'll we'll go around
and show it to you but this is like I would say the secondary entrance
but depending on where you live people enter from both sides most mornings when I come
to school I enter from this way because it's just like 100 feet 200 feet closer
and now we're sort of back where we started it's hard to tell but
just behind these bushes over here is the first entrance what I call the main entrance
and then this is like the entrance to the Corbett but you can also walk in this entrance so
entrance number two wait or should we cut let's see let's get through the grass
welcome to the field this is a big old patch of grass that does nothing except when we do
fire drills this is where everybody meets just over this little pump is the pond you can see
Hatfields peeking out in the back if we go a little bit more this way you can see the tops
of the Corbett theater and the SU then we're back to the entrance or the secondary entrance you can
see latin peeking through those gates and then the main entrance this main little path let's go
and that completes our tour of East 15. it's a really small campus as you can see I think
there's a total of there's five buildings on this campus it's a really small campus but
it's cute and quaint and if that's something that you're into you will really love it here
and with that I have to say thank you for coming along on the tour with me uh thanks again to
Keaton the wonderful camera person and I hope you enjoyed this tour I hope it was helpful for you
and if you're somebody who like I said is not planning on coming here ever
well I hope you just enjoyed hanging out with me and seeing my school and where I spend a
lot of my days right now of course if you're new to the channel make sure you subscribe
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leave it down in the comment and I'd love to answer your questions but uh
that is it for me stay beautiful have a marvelous day and I'll see you on the next one bye!