History

I have always had a passion for History. Sometimes it even challenged my love of Theatre.

However, a light has shined upon this slight problem, RADA does a supplementary course alongside the one I want to take called "The History of Theatre".

My favourite era of History is the Tudor period, mainly because I love the drama in the Royal Court and all the secrets historians keep finding out about different people who were once high in society. I read many Phillipa Gregory novels, which manage to create that exact feeling of mystery and the Tudor court that I love. One of my main ambitions is to take one of her books and create a stage production (preferably a play) of one of them. I can imagine this being effective because the Tudor court was well know for its extravagance and colours; reds, greens, golds. Making a stage which represents the Tudor Court would be a visual masterpiece and a delight to work on.

The story lines of Gregorys novels could easily be re-written as a script, especially as her most famous novel "The Other Boylen Girl" has already been made into a film.

After leaving University I would love to be able to work behind the Globe Theatre and help run the famous Shakespearean plays that are run there throughout the year. The Globes stage is the closest to resembling a Tudor court, or a theatre in those times. This is mainly because it is replicated from the Elizabethan period which came literally right after the Tudor era (Queen Elizabeth was the Daughter of Henry VIII).

Maybe one day I'll be able to work on a production of "The Constant Princess" or some sort of Tudor play.