Shakespeare Monologue Competition
for Students Grades 6-9

March 12 , 2007
1:00 pm - Arrive at Imagination Stage
1:15 pm - Warm-Up for All Contestants
1:30 pm - Monologue Competition

Congratulations to our winners!

Imagination Stage, Bethesda, MD
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ALL AREA SCHOOLS are invited to send a participant to compete.  Participants 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 indicates interest in participating in an email to crbs@umd.edu.
   
   
2. If more than one student is interested in participating, the coordinator organizes a competition at the local level.  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.  Judges select one student from your school to participate in the Shakespeare Monologue Competition.
   
   
3. The coordinator submits a student entrant form to the Center by Thursday, February 1.
   
   
4. School winners and their teachers may participate in a workshop designed to help students prepare for the competition. The workshop will be held Saturday, February 3, from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm  at Imagination Stage, Bethesda, MD. Participants must register for this workshop when they submit their student entrant form.
   
   
5. Entrants, accompanied by coordinators and/or family members, attend the regional competition at Imagination Stage on Thursday, February 15, 2007.  Participants will introduce themselves and then will briefly identify, in no more than two sentences, the monologue they have chosen and the circumstances in which the monologue occurs.  These passage identifications should demonstrate participants’ familiarity not only with the monologue's immediate context but also with the play in its entirety.  After introducing themselves and identifying their monologues, participants will then perform their monologues of 20-25 lines.
   
6. Student participants may not be professional or semi-professional actors.  A professional or semi-professional actor is here defined as 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.

Sponsored by the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies, Imagination Stage, the English-Speaking Union, and the Washington Episcopal School.

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