Middle School Shakespeare
Monologue Competition

February 17, 2005
2:30 to 4:00 pm

Imagination Stage, Bethesda, MD

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ALL AREA MIDDLE SCHOOLS are invited to send an entrant to compete in this competition.  Student entrants must be permanent residents of the United States, and must be enrolled in 6th, 7th, 8th, or 9th grade.

Overview:

1. The teacher/coordinator in the school submits a registration form to the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies by January 14, 2005.
2. The coordinator organizes a competition of at least three students.  Students select and prepare a comic monologue, using guidelines developed by the English-Speaking Union. The school competition should be judged, if possible, by at least three qualified observers, to be drawn from teachers, actors, directors, or others in the community who are knowledgeable about Shakespeare.
3. The coordinator submits a school winner information form to the Center by February 9, 2005.
4. Entrants, accompanied by coordinators and/or family members, attend the regional competition at Imagination Stage on February 17, 2005.  Entrants will introduce themselves. They will briefly identify the passages they have chosen in no more than two sentences that describe the circumstance in which the monologue occurs.  They should be familiar not only with the monologue's context but also with the play in its entirety.  Entrants will then recite their monologues of twenty-five lines or less.

Student participants may not be professional or semi-professional actors.  A professional or semi-professional actor is here defined as a person who has been paid for a dramatic role of any kind during the preceding year.

Detailed guidelines for coordinators, as well as forms to register your school's participation and to submit your school's winner, along with directions to Imagination Stage, are available at this website and can be faxed, e-mailed, or mailed to your school.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies, Imagination Stage, and the English-Speaking Union.

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