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Why Drama? Why in xxx? And why in the Great Britain?
As an international student I was always exposed to any kind of trials and inquiring questions on the part of my peers. Very often they applied to my Polish origin, history, tradition, sport, culture of my country, in other words, humanistic values which I very much appreciate. The most interesting were these questions which did not give a firm answers. Often they were bound up with art. With it I have never had problems due to my mother, connoisseur of world literature (the graduate from Polish University in xxx), its promoter and keen follower. It was she who inoculated me with the passion for humanistic studies (I always wanted to try it out and to practice).
Thus, in the lessons of German literature every wondered where from a Polish student knows such writers as Franz Kafka, Bertold Brecht, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, or even Bruno Schulz, Slawomir Mrozek and, reaching now for higher shelf, Sophocles, Aristotle, Aeschylus or Shakespeare…Even more, a certain astonishment was evoked by the student who is able to interpret the art of theatre, in epoch of Television and Internet in which can be discerned a decrease of personal participation in Theatrical High Mass…
Not by accident I abandoned the higher education in Poland and took up learning in the German Gymnasium in xxx, not accidentally I am now in the Great Britain applying for a place in a course of Drama Studies. Let’s carry on…
Not in vain I took classes in the Musical School for four years while learning in Poland, recited poems of Polish poets, took part in Actor’s Song Reviews in my family city in xxx and played in mini-school performances. Stage experiences, and in the first place these of the strenuous effort with people, cannot be gained in a different way than through practice. And it is just due to it being in a German Gymnasium I played a small roles in performances of Darstellendes Spiel such as “Future Faust” or “Die Erbschaft” (the Inheritance), and learning English language before moving into England I took up a role of doctor in “Macbeth”, this time in a Bell School of English in Poland. There were not “ambitious parts”, but for a student who undertook a participation in classes which were not compulsory (I chose music), in addition, in language which could not be his mother tongue, it is a real challenge. And…I did my part well.
However, the non compulsory classes in German School lasting for three years did not give me any exact historical background of theatrical knowledge (although one Polish book on it on my own), but they taught me, at this time, some new things, for instance: how to lead a warming up to actors before performance, how to improvise, how to breathe, come in and out the stage, how to fall without doing harm to yourself, how to faint, play in pantomime etc.
Therefore today, being in xxx and thinking ahead of my own cultural future, being yet a complete amateur, I would like to broaden the horizon of my knowledge at the great English University, studying a course towards which I always expressed my passion. Since my childhood due to my parents I took part as a viewer in many various performances, spectacles, musicals, operas, shows. It is high time to pay off debt of gratitude for people of art, and with full commitment and responsibility for own future, far away from family country, to zero in on art, art of drama. This time as its active co-author.