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Drama Personal Statement
Drama is a way of sharing my thoughts and desires, as well as expressing my inner self. It is the motivation that drives me through any challenge. I am a well organised, hard working, self motivated and keen person who loves to learn as an individual or as a team. I discovered drama in primary school, and developed my interest through secondary education where I promptly became involved in the ‘Drama after School Club’. Since then my love for the theatre has grown. My course is really enjoyable and rewarding, and I love learning more about theatre, therefore, I want to find a drama course which allows me to explore all the aspects of the theatre in the hope of gaining a better understanding of how the business of the industry works.
During secondary school I was involved in the school choir, later I volunteered to deliver the Christmas hampers, which were made to give to the elderly around the area. In year 11 I was chosen as part of the ACES programme, a project that runs parallel with the Mentoring Education Achievement that encourages young people to achieve high in their GCSEs. I am also a young leader at the local Brownies where I coordinate crafts, write the annual letters to the parents and lead other activities with the team. I’m always getting involved in productions outside of college. I was recently involved in a pantomime at the local church where I played a variety of major and minor roles. In the past I have experienced styles of dancing, performing to the young and the elderly. As a hobby I enjoy kayaking, it is a good way to relax and escape distraction. I took up playing the piano and love to learn new pieces of music. Additionally, I sketch and write poems which, I publish on the internet forum/blogs.
In college I aim for my work to reach a high standard and if I need to, I will improve work in my spare time to reach the grades that I am capable of achieving. In the course I have already studied practitioners from 20th century European and world wide drama which includes O’Neil, Mamet, Godber, Artaud, Cartwright and Irvine Welsh. I have also studied Stanislavski and his methods of naturalistic acting including emotional memory and in contrast to him, Brecht and his Epic Theatre. I have had experience at being a set designer, which included sketching possible set ideas and organising everyone to help with the creation of the set. As part of the acting unit, we had to research, write and adapt existing text to create our own monologue which we then performed for assessment. I have been studying various styles of scriptwriting, from this I will have attempted my own in the styles, later on in the unit I will be writing a ten minute long script which will be performed. At the moment I am devising a performance based around a political issue; this will later be toured at secondary schools. I have performed in many devised and improvisational performances, which have helped me to communicate between my fellow colleagues. I have found that I am more comfortable at spontaneous improvising. I have assisted a door supervisor’s course by role playing situations for them. This opportunity was extremely fun and enabled me to use my ability in a different surrounding. At the end of my first year at college I participated in the Derek Jacobi Festival, where I directed the play ‘Noises Off’ by Michael Frayne, where I and my cast were rewarded with best actor, best performance and the staff discretionary award. It was such an interesting and delightful experience to direct my fellow colleagues.
Overall I am a hard working person, who is keen to get on with work, and will try their best to succeed. Once I have completed this degree course I intend to go to drama school, to study a postgraduate course depending on my chosen discipline. Therefore to pursue my ambitions I believe studying your drama course will benefit me and I will be an asset to your institution.
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