Middle School Shakespeare Monologue Contest
Inauguration Year 2004

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Shakespeare Comic Monologues

At: Washington Episcopal School – Middle School Commons
On: Thursday, February 12, 2004, from 3 to 4 pm

All area middle schools are invited to send a contestant to Washington Episcopal School to compete in this contest, open for the first time to middle school students. Student constants must be permanent residents of the United States, and must be enrolled in 6th, 7th, 8th, or 9th grade. They may not be professional or semi-professional actors. A professional and semi-professional actor is here defined as a person who has been paid for a dramatic role of any kind during the preceding year.

Overview and Guidelines:
Contestants will introduce themselves and briefly identify the passages they have chosen in no more than two sentences about the circumstances of the play in which the monologue occurs. They should be familiar not only with the speech’s context but with the play in its entirety. Contestants will then recite a monologue of approximately 25 lines from a Shakespeare comedy. Guidelines for coordinators, school participation forms, school-winner information forms, directions to the Washington Episcopal School, and a list of monologue selections can be e-mailed, faxed, or mailed.

Judges:

Lee Viccellio, Ph.D.
Teacher/Consultant
Shakespeare and Theatre Specialist Kelly Newman
English Teacher/Theatre Teacher and Director
Montgomery Blair High School

John Andrews
Executive Director
Nation’s Capital Area Branch, The English-Speaking Union

Co-sponsored by the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies, the English-Speaking Union, and the Washington Episcopal School.

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