Whats Happened to Brent Street

Well as an ex-staff member of Brent Street I will give my perspective on Brent Street. When Brent Street first started it was a one-of-a-kind institution. A family business which became well-known as a leading performing arts centre. It has always been dance-based and if you look at music theatre in this country it is also dance based, hence this is why you see many music-theatre performers who at one stage trained at Brent Street. When Brent street started it's full-time course it was the only one of it's kind and as with any monopoly quickly gained a reputation as one of the best. The family business quickly grew and expanded and before long moved premises to Camperdown and then became bigger and bigger. Not having a great deal of business sense the owners soon found themselves in deep financial trouble. The only way out of this was to take more full-time students - 100 in total (You do the math). They then made the move to Waterloo to their current premises which is frighteningly huge. Towards the end of last year full-time students were left with virtually no staff while administrators sorted out their financial mess. Staff were not paid salary for some 3 weeks. Brent Street was very close to being shut-down. I now believe that they have taken on another huge amount of full-time students to fund yet another move to fox studios. So having viewed this business from both inside and out and can honestly say that the standard has dropped dramatically over the years. Gradually the elite staff they once held have moved on to more stable institutions and standard of students attending the full-time course has significantly lowered. So I would suggest that the girls you have spoken to have indeed been duped by the Brent street past hype.