Shakespeare Monologue Festival
for Students Grades 6-9

February 7, 2008
1:00 pm - Arrive at Imagination Stage
1:15 pm - Warm-Up for All Contestants
1:30 pm - Monologue Festival

Imagination Stage, Bethesda, MD
(click here for directions and parking information)

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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 Festival.
   
   
3. The coordinator submits a student entrant form to the Center by Monday, January 14, 2008.
   
   
4. School winners and their teachers may participate in a workshop designed to help students prepare for the competition. The workshop will be held at Imagination Stage on January 19, 2008, from 12 pm - 3 pm, and on February 2, 2008, from 12 pm - 3 pm. 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 7, 2008.  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 of20 - 25 lines.
   

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.

Detailed guidelines for coordinators, suggested monologues, entrant forms, and directions to Imagination Stage are available at this website and can be faxed, e-mailed, or mailed to your school.

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

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