Performing to me is not only an experience for yourself but also for the people who are watching. I started performing at around four years old but it was more dance related than theatre. It wasn’t until I reached about eleven that I got into acting. However, I stopped going to the drama classes because I moved on to singing. It wasn’t until my GCSE’s that I decided to go back to acting, and not going to lie, it was because my best friends took it. In year ten I got the park of Judy, in ‘Too Much Punch for Judy’. On the day of the performance I cried because I was too nervous to do it. Only about ten people turned up for our audience but it was the first time I’d had a main part. I have always questioned myself as to whether to carry acting on because I don’t feel I’m good at acting. I went on to college where it was the decision to pick fashion or drama and I went for drama. This time it wasn’t because my friends had picked it. I didn’t know anyone at all when I turned up at Barnsley college. However, it was the best decision I have ever made and thats how I carried on to Lincoln. To me, I enjoy drama because I love the process of making the actual performance, the people you meet and the friends you make through performing.
“We had been trying to be adults since we were 15. When we finally reached 18, nothing changed. It wasn’t until we were lying on the bathroom floor, drunk and high in two different states, that we realised age is just a number. And reality is learning there’s no such thing as been an adult. You only grow older and if you’re lucky, maybe a little bit wiser.”
– Anon