Becoming an actor was the one thing that I'd always wanted to be before I came to University, I even looked at Central School of Speech and Drama before coming to University, however like many things in Life it changes. I think by the end of my first year, when our First year show got a first, I still wanted to be an actor, but it was when I started my second year, everything seemed to change very quickly.
I started doing modules in contemporary American theatre / performance / live art and from then on discovered an almost entirely new world which I didn't think existed. From that point on, I became fascinated with this area of performance. It just sounded so much more exciting, and for a long time I wanted to go to America for postgraduate study, but on closer inspection the prices were to expensive, unfortunately. The sense of hunger, ambition, dreams all came together in a really intense period, early last year when I wanted to travel, go around the world. Unfortunately it didn't pan out, but it was still the fact that during that time, I began to feel right at home at University, I felt I was at the right place at the right time, I saw probably what have been my two favourite theatre shows of the last 2 / 3 years 'Kellerman' by Imitating the Dog and Proto-Type Theatre.
The integration I felt between politics, performance, media, current affairs and anything and everything in between seemed to fall into place.
It has only really been in the last few months when the reality of working in the arts, as an artist or in another creative industry has really hit me. There is an awful lot to cover, particularly the question of how to make work, why make work, what is the point in art?
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