The Drill Hall
The Drill Hall
Address	16 Chenies Street
City	Camden, London
Coordinates	51°31′14″N 0°07′57″W / 51.520556°N 0.1325°W / 51.520556; -0.1325Coordinates: 51°31′14″N 0°07′57″W / 51.520556°N 0.1325°W / 51.520556; -0.1325
Architect	Samuel Knight
Owned by	Central London Arts
Capacity	200 seats
Type	Studio theatre
Opened	1984
Previous names	1882 Bloomsbury Rifles
www.drillhall.co.uk

The Drill Hall is a theatrical venue in Bloomsbury in the London Borough of Camden, just to the east of Tottenham Court Road. It contains rehearsal rooms and meeting rooms, and two small theatres - the 200-seat Drill Hall 1 and a 50-seat studio space, known as Drill Hall 2. Its name derives from its original use, as a drill hall for the Bloomsbury Rifles. It became a theatre in the 1980s after many years of being used as a rehearsal hall and, in the 1960s, as an art gallery for the Tate Gallery’s exhibition of the McAlpine Collection. It has a notable artistic history, in the 1900s, Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes rehearsed here. During World War II it was used for Ralph Reader's Gang Shows.

Since 1984, The Drill Hall has particularly supported production of theatrical and artistic works with gay and lesbian themes. It has also been one of several venues used by the BBC as a studio for radio shows which are recorded in front of a live studio audience.

The Drill Hall has an annual turnover of £1.25 million; previously this was supported with £250,000 of Arts Council funding. In late 2007, the Council announced it was withdrawing this funding to concentrate its funding on other ventures. Similar fates befell 194 other arts organisations.^[1]

From 3 January 2012, Central London Arts Ltd, who had run The Drill Hall for 30 years, began trading as Outhouse London, and The Drill Hall itself was taken over by RADA and renamed RADA Studios.^[2]

References[link]

External links[link]

• The Drill Hall
• Current shows and events at The Drill Hall
• History of The Drill Hall
• BBC TV and radio tickets

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The former drill hall of the 5th/6th Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry at Garnethill, Glasgow, which formed the 52nd Lowland Volunteers in 1967. It is now used by the Glasgow School of Art.

A drill hall is a place such as a building or a hangar where soldiers practice and perform military drill. In the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, the term was also used for the whole headquarters building of a military reserve unit, which usually incorporated such a hall. Many of these drill halls were built through public subscriptions in order to support the local Volunteer Force which was raised in the late 1850s. In Britain, these were later renamed Territorial Army (TA) Centres. As well as a drill hall itself, they now usually feature other facilities such as a gymnasium, Motor transport department, lecture rooms, stores, an armoury, administrative offices and the Officer's, Warrant Officers and Senior NCOs, and Junior Ranks Messes. Many Officer Training Corps, Army Cadet Force and Air Training Corps units are also co-located on the site of modern TA Centres.

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http://www.drillhalls.org The Drill Hall Project

Season Two (Book 2: Earth) of Avatar: The Last Airbender, an American animated television series on Nickelodeon, first aired its 20 episodes from March 17, 2006 to December 1, 2006. The season was created and produced by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko and starred Zach Tyler Eisen, Mae Whitman, Jack DeSena, Jessie Flower, Mako, Grey DeLisle, and Dante Basco as the main character voices.^[1][3]

In the season's beginning, the protagonist Aang and his friends Katara and Sokka are on a quest to find an Earthbending teacher, which finishes when they recruit Toph. Sokka finds important information concerning the war with the Fire Nation. Aang quickly becomes single-minded in looking for his kidnapped flying bison Appa. His search leads him to Ba Sing Se, the capital of the Earth Kingdom, where he uncovers the great internal government corruption of Ba Sing Se. At the season's end, Ba Sing Se falls to the Fire Nation and Aang escapes with his friends on a recovered Appa.

Throughout the season's airing, the show received much critical acclaim, with praises such as, "As a flat concept, Avatar the Last Airbender is nothing special, but in execution, it is head and shoulders above other children's entertainment", and that "as a whole, the look of Avatar is consistently excellent."^[4] Season 2 has won multiple awards, including the "Best Character Animation in a Television Production" award from the 34th Annie Awards^[5] and the "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation" award from the 2007 Emmy Awards.^[6]

Between January 23, 2007 and September 11, 2007, Nickelodeon released five DVD sets for the season: four sets containing five episodes each, and a fifth DVD collection of all twenty episodes.^[7] All DVDs were encoded in Region 1. In the UK, only the season boxset was released without being released in four volumes first. The boxset was released on July 20, 2009.

Production[link]

The season was produced by and aired on Nickelodeon, which is owned by Viacom. The season's executive producers and co-creators are Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, who worked alongside episode director and co-producer Aaron Ehasz.^[8] Most of the individual episodes were directed by Ethan Spaulding, Lauren MacMullan and Giancarlo Volpe.^[3] Episodes were written by a team of writers, which consisted of Aaron Ehasz, Elizabeth Welch Ehasz, Tim Hedrick, John O'Bryan; along with creators DiMartino and Konietzko.^[3]

The season's music was composed by "The Track Team", which consists of Jeremy Zuckerman and Benjamin Wynn, who were known to the show's creators because Zuckerman was Konietzko's roommate.^[9]

Cast[link]

Most of the main characters who made their debut in the first season remained the same, with Zach Tyler Eisen as Aang, Mae Whitman as Katara, Jack DeSena as Sokka,^[3] and Dante Basco as the anti-hero Zuko.^[10] However, several new characters appear: Toph voiced by Jessie Flower, Azula voiced by Grey DeLisle and Long Feng voiced by Clancy Brown.^[3] Two antagonists, Mai and Ty Lee, are introduced as Azula's minions who are tasked with capturing Aang. They were voiced by Cricket Leigh and Olivia Hack, respectively.^[3] Mako, who voiced Iroh, died during production and was replaced by Greg Baldwin.^[11]

Reception[link]

In a review of the Volume 2 DVD Release for Book 2, Gabriel Powers from DVDActive.com described the series as one of the best children's series in recent times, making comparisons with Samurai Jack and Justice League, and complimented it for its depth and humour.^[12] Powers also comments:

Without dumbing down its characters, plots, or humour, and without overtly taming-up the action or peril, Avatar manages to enthral children and adults, ages 4 to 56...There is a genuine classic feel to the series, which uses actual Asian culture and lore as its base. Like Star Wars, the creative forces behind the show have tapped into that basic, generation spanning storytelling that will live long after the series' youngest fans are old and bitter.^[12]

For the video and audio quality, Powers says "Season two generally looks better than the bulk of season one, but still has some issues" concerning image sharpness. Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 87% fresh rating in 2008.^[13] Jamie S. Rich from DVD Talk says that "As a flat concept, Avatar the Last Airbender is nothing special, but in execution, it is head and shoulders above other children's entertainment", and that "as a whole, the look of Avatar is consistently excellent".^[4]

The show also received acclaim for its visual appeal. In the 34th Annie Awards, the show was nominated for and won the "Best Character Animation in a Television Production" award, for Jae-Myung Yu's animation in "The Blind Bandit", and the "Best Directing in an Animated Television Production" award, for the episode "The Drill".^[5] In 2007, the show was nominated for "Outstanding Animated Program" in the 2007 Emmy Awards for the "City of Walls and Secrets" episode,^[14] though it did not win.^[6] However, the show did win the "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation" award for Sang-Jin Kim's animation in the "Lake Laogai" episode.^[6]

Episodes[link]

DVD releases[link]

Nickelodeon began releasing DVDs for Book 2 on January 23, 2007.^[2] The first five DVD releases contain one disc that consisted of four episodes each.^[15] The final DVD was the "Complete Book 2 Box Set", which contains all of the episodes in the season on five discs, and packaged with a special features disc.^[7] All of the DVD sets for Book 2 were released with Region 1 encoding, meaning that they can only play on North American DVD players. Book 2 was released on Region 2 on July 20, 2009.

Footnotes[link]

1.^ Production code format taken from the commentary for "Sozin's Comet: The Phoenix King"

References[link]

General

• "Season 2". Avatar: The Last Airbender. IGN. http://tv.ign.com/objects/860/860979.html. Retrieved July 21, 2008. 
• "Season 2 DVD Information". TVShowsOnDVD.com. February 24, 2005. http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/shows/Avatar-Airbender/8931. Retrieved September 6, 2008. 

Specific

External links[link]

• Official Site

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