Middle School Shakespeare
Monologue Competition
February 15, 2006
2:30 pm - Arrive at Imagination Stage
2:45 pm - Warm-Up for All Contestants
3:00 pm - Monologue Competition
Imagination
Stage, Bethesda, MD
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directions and parking information)
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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:
- The teacher/coordinator in the school
submits a registration
form to the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies
by January 16, 2006.
- The coordinator organizes a competition of at least three
students.
Students select and prepare a monologue,
using guidelines
for students. 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.
- The coordinator submits a school
winner information form to the Center by Monday, January
30, 2006.
- School winners and their teachers may participate in one
of two workshops designed to help students prepare for the
competition. Workshops will be held Thursday, February 2, from
10 a.m. to 12 noon, and Sunday, February 5, from 4:30 pm to
6:30 pm.
- Entrants, accompanied by coordinators and/or family members,
attend the regional competition at Imagination Stage on Thursday,
February 16, 2006. 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 one who has received, or is scheduled
to receive, payment for a professional or semi-professional acting
performance during the school year in which the competition occurs.
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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