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Speech & Drama Classes
Saturday 10th - Sunday 25st March 2012

Adjudicators: 

 JEAN-MARC PERRET LLAM
MIA BALL BA, LGSM, PGVS, PGCA

Jean-Marc Perret trained at Elmhurst Ballet School and later at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Theatre credits include An Ideal Husband (Manchester Royal Exchange), To Kill a Mockingbird (West Yorkshire Playhouse, Birmingham Repertory Theatre and UK Tour), Mary Stuart (Derby Playhouse), The Tempest (Nottingham Playhouse) Romeo and Juliet (Creation Theatre, Oxford) and The Three Musketeers (Theatre Royal, Bristol). He did a N0:1 UK tour of the original musical adaptation of The Demon Headmaster and in 2002 he played Edmund in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Royal Shakespeare Company). His screen work includes The Chronicles of Narnia (BBC) and Revelation (Romulus Films). He qualified as National Coach for British Fencing and is a certified stage combat instructor for the BADC. In 2006 he coordinated the fights for The Revenger’s Tragedy (Southwark Playhouse) and was Fight Arranger on Gagarin Way (Theatre Royal, Bath). He set up Cut & Thrustin 2003 which provides specialised workshops in Stage Fighting from 6 years+ and is a visiting lecturer / practitioner for numerous schools, colleges and universities worldwide including New York University, Georgetown University (Washington D.C.), Texas State, Vermont, Bethel University, Bonn, Zurich, St.Peter's College Oxford, Royal Holloway, London.

Alongside acting and fighting, Jean-Marc was a Speech and Drama Examiner for Trinity College, London and was appointed to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 2003. He is delighted to have been invited to adjudicate at the Watford Festival and is looking forward to it enormously.

Mia Ball has been involved with drama and the Festival movement since she the played the Cheshire Cat at the age of eight.  She studied for her LGSM while reading for an Honours degree in English, and then moved on to BBC Radio, working mainly in the drama department.  Having a family encouraged her to go into teaching and she has taught all ages from 8 to 80.  Until July ‘09 she taught in a girls’ independent school, taking “A” Level Drama and Theatre Studies courses  and directing plays, as well as preparing students for grade examinations, and of course, Festivals.  She is now focusing on an increasing range of  of free-lance work, including examining, running workshops, teaching presentation skills and helping to organise her local Festival.   She examines and runs teachers’ workshops for LAMDA both in this country and abroad and regularly adjudicates at Festivals in England and Hong Kong.  She is looking forward to her second visit to the Watford Festival.

SPEECH SECTION
  • All verse speaking to be performed from memory
  • All entrants are expected to dress appropriately (See Regulation 6)
  • Entrants who disregard these regulations are liable to be penalised

VERSE SPEAKING (SET POEMS)
F0 Reception Yr and under   £5.75
As Tasty as a Picnic by Celia Warren OR
Drum by Judith Nicholls OR
Jack Frost by Brenda Williams
F1 School Year 1   £5.75
Shell by Myra Cohn Livingstone OR
Robin by Iain Crichton Smith OR
My Hat! by Tony Mitton
F2 School Year 2   £5.75
The Door by Richard Edwards OR
Mine by Lilian Moore OR
Windy Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson
F3 School Year 3   £6.25
The Mouse in the Wainscot by Ian Serraillier OR
Louder by Roger Stevens OR
I asked the Little Boy Who Cannot See by Anon
F4 School Year 4   £6.25
Clouds by Colin West OR
First Dog on the Moon by David Orme
Aunty Joan by John Foster
F5 School Year 5   £6.25
The Spare Room by Diana Hendry OR
My Dad’s Book by David Harmer OR
The Hills by Rachel Field
F6 School Year 6   £6.25
Cows by James Reeves OR
People Need People by Benjamin Zephaniah OR
Geography Lesson by Brian Patten
F7 School Year 7   £6.75
Skating on Thin Lino by Gareth Owen OR
The Soldiers Came by John Agard OR
The Daffodils by William Wordsworth
F8 School Year 8   £6.75
Seeing Things by Connie Bensley OR
Laughter Rap in Plastic Town by John Agard OR
Horrible Song by Ted Hughes
F9 School Year 9 & 10   £6.75
The Nightmare by Elizabeth Jennings OR
Notes for an Autumn Painting by Adrian Henri OR
The Thought-Fox by Ted Hughes
F10 School Year 11 - 13   £7.25
The Windsors: An Everyday Story of Royal Folk by U A Fanthorpe OR
The Wild Swans at Coole by W. B. Yeats OR
Encounter by Leonard Clark

VERSE SPEAKING (OWN CHOICE – But NOT a set poem listed above)
F11 Reception Yr and under 1min £5.75
F12 School Year 1 1min £5.75
F13 School Year 2 2min £5.75
F14 School Year 3 2min £6.25
F15 School Year 4 2min £6.25
F16 School Year 5 2min £6.25
F17 School Year 6 2min £6.25
F18 School Year 7 & 8 3min £6.75
F19 School Year 9 & 10 3min £6.75
F20 School Year 11 - 13 3min £7.25

SONNET (OWN CHOICE)
F21 School Year 9&10   £6.75
F22 School Year 11-13   £7.25

PROSE READING (OWN CHOICE)
  • The chosen piece of prose must be read from the book
F23 School Year 2 & under 2min £5.75
F24 School Year 3 2min £6.25
F25 School Year 4 2min £6.25
F26 School Year 5 2min £6.25
F27 School Year 6 2min £6.25
F28 School Year 7 3min £6.75
F29 School Year 8 3min £6.75
F30 School Year 9 & 10 3min £6.75
F31 School Year 11 - 13 3min £7.25

STORYTELLING
  • Competitors to tell a story (known or invented) in their own words
  • No costumes
  • Props & visual aids permitted
F32 School Year 6 & under 3min £6.25

PUBLIC SPEAKING
  • Prepared speech / talk on any topic
  • Notes and visual aids permitted
F33 School Year 6 & under 3min £6.25
F34 School Year 7 - 9 4min £6.75
F35 School Year 10 - 13 4min £7.25

SIGHT READING
  • Competitors are given a short prose passage to read aloud
  • 2 minutes are allowed for preparation
F36 School Year 3 & 4   £6.25
F37 School Year 5 & 6   £6.25
F38 School Year 7 - 9   £6.75
F39 School Year 10 - 13   £7.25

DRAMA SECTION

MIME
  • Own choice of subject
  • Practice clothes only to be worn (white or black shirt, blouse or T-shirt; black trousers or tights)
  • No music, costumes or hand props to be used
  • Solo - One stage block OR one chair is permitted
  • Duologue - Two stage blocks OR two chairs
  • A title should be announced but no introduction or verbal explanation given
  • Bare feet or soft footwear to be worn
Solo Mime
F40 School Year 6 & under 3min £6.25
F41 School Year 7 - 9 3min £6.75
F42 School Year 10 - 13 3min £7.25
Duologue Mime
F43 School Year 6 & under 3min £9.50
F44 School Year 7 - 9 3min £10.50
F45 School Year 10 - 13 3min £11.50

ACTING
  • All Own choice
  • All classes must be performed from memory – no script reading
  • Costume or Practice clothes (white or black shirt, blouse or T-shirt; black trousers or black skirt) should be worn. NB : No extra marks will be awarded for costume
  • Appropriate footwear should be worn to suit the character
  • Hand props and music may be used
  • Chairs and tables (also stage blocks at the Pump House) are provided
ELIZABETHAN, JACOBEAN OR RESTORATION
Solo Acting
F46 School Year 7 - 9 4min £6.75
F47 School Year 10 - 13 4min £7.25
Duologue Acting
F48 School Year 7 - 9 5min £10.50
F49 School Year 10 - 13 5min £11.50
SCENE FROM A PLAY, SCREENPLAY, ADAPTED PROSE OR MONOLOGUE
(excluding Elizabethan, Jacobean or Restoration)
Solo Acting
F50 School Year 4 & under 3min £6.25
F51 School Year 5 & 6 3min £6.25
F52 School Year 7 - 9 4min £6.75
F53 School Year 10 - 13* 4min £7.25
Duologue Acting
F54 School Year 4 & under 4min £9.50
F55 School Year 5 & 6 4min £9.50
F56 School Year 7 - 9 5min £10.50
F57 School Year 10 - 13* 5min £11.50

 

* Please see note 4.4 in Regulations & General Information
MUSICAL THEATRE
  • Please see note 4.6 in Regulations & General Information
  • To perform a short piece of published or devised text in character which leads into the performance of a song in character
  • Movement and dance should be incorporated where relevant to enhance the overall performance
  • One copy of the libretto must be provided for the adjudicator and adhere to copyright laws
  • It is the responsibility of the performer to provide a recorded accompaniment, their own playback equipment an operating technician
  • All acting rules apply
Solo Acting
F58 School Year 6 & under 3min £6.25
F59 School Year 7 - 9 4min £6.75
F60 School Year 10 - 13 4min £7.25
Duologue Acting
F61 School Year 6 & under 4min £9.50
F62 School Year 7 - 9 5min £10.50
F63 School Year 10 - 13 5min £11.50

GROUPS
  • All Own choice with the exception of Prepared Group Improvisation (Classes 68 - 71)
  • All acting rules apply
GROUP ACTING (Scene from a play, screenplay or novel)
  • Minimum of three competitors
  • Script required for the adjudicator
F64 School Year 6 & under 10min £30.00
F65 No age Limit 10min £35.00
GROUP ANTHOLOGY
  • Minimum of three competitors
  • Must use a combination of at least three of the following: music, dance, drama, mime, movement and verse
  • A script of running order/notes must be provided for the adjudicator
F66 School Year 6 & under 10min £30.00
F67 No age Limit 10min £35.00
PREPARED GROUP IMPROVISATION
  • To prepare an original improvisation inspired by one of the set titles
  • Groups of 3 – 8 persons
  • If an original script evolves through the rehearsal process this is permissible
F68 School Year 6 & under 4min £22.50
"Forgotten Treasure" OR "I Want! I Want!"
F69 School Year 9 & under 5min £25.00
"Red or Black?" OR "Twenty Pound Note"
F70 School Year 11 & under 5min £25.00
"In Line" OR "Name Game"
F71 No age Limit 5min £25.00
"Quick off the Draw" OR "Problem Page"
MUSICAL THEATRE
  • Minimum of three competitors
  • To perform a musical scene from a published work of musical theatre, or from a film or screenplay
  • The scene should include a balance between song, movement and dialogue
  • One copy of the libretto must be provided for the adjudicator and adhere to copyright laws
  • It is the responsibility of the group to provide the necessary recorded musical accompaniment on a CDR (audio track) not CDRW or MP3 if they wish to use the theatre playback system which will be operated by the theatre technician
  • One Copy of the recorded CD must be sent to Helen Thorpe, 4 Oxhey Road, Watford WD19 4QE by 29th January to enable the theatre technician to make the necessary check to ensure compatibility with the theatre playback system. It will be retained by the festival and available on the day of the performance
  • Each group will be allocated a ten minutes technical rehearsal prior to the beginning of the class
F72 No age Limit

Minimum of 5mins
Maximum of 10 mins

 £55.00
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