In the early months of 1803 Charles Dibdin Junior was getting together a company for Sadler’s Wells. For the past three years he had been author, producer and stage manager-for an inclusive salary of two guineas a week-at the little summer theatre that lay over the fields towards Islington. Now by a stroke of luck he was also partproprietor. The previous season had not been very good. In fact, Mr. Siddons-husband of the great Sarah-and three of his four copartners in the Wells had decided to sell out. Negotiations were already in train when Dibdin discovered what was afoot. He approached his employers and asked if the deal had gone too far for them to withdraw. Siddons assured him it had not. Richard Hughes, who acted as general manager, told him it only needed youth, professional experience and a spirit of enterprise to make the Wells as prosperous as it had been before. [download]
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