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Speech & Drama Classes
Sunday 27th February - Sunday 13th March 2022, Sunday 20th March 2022
Venues: Pump House, Watersmeet
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Adjudicators:
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JONATHAN OWEN trained as a Music & Drama teacher at Birmingham Universitiy’s Faculty of Education. For Trinity College, London, he has examined Speech, Drama, Effective Communication and Musical Theatre across the United Kingdom, and throughout India and New Zealand. As a member of The International Federation of Adjudicators he has adjudicated festivals throughout the UK and in Singapore, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka. This Autumn he returns to adjudicate the Hong Kong Festival for his third consecutive year.
As an actor he has appeared in numerous radio plays for BBC Radio 4, and is best remembered as Terry Barford in The Archers. His television work is extensive amounting to over 50 appearances in TV Dramas and ‘soaps’, including Coronation St., Heartbeat, Emmerdale, Doctors, London’s Burning, Triangle and All Creatures Great & Small.
He has also appeared in London’s West End theatre in Jesus Christ Superstar, Call Me Madam, Singin’ In the Rain, Ziegfeld and Having A Ball
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REBECCA VINES LLAM, LALAM, MSTSD (Adj.) trained as an actor with The London Centre for Theatre Studies, and has performed in a variety of roles, including Maggie (Dancing at Lughnasa), Beverly (Abigail’s Party), Madame Arcati (Blithe Spirit), Susan (A Bed Among the Lentils) and Elizabeth Proctor (The Crucible).
In 2014, Rebecca was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts for her work in establishing theatre companies to promote young and emerging performers. She has also founded and worked/works as Artistic Director of No Prophet, Eleventh Hour and Talking Shadows theatre companies which were created to springboard young performance careers.
Rebecca is a Shakespeare scholar with a particular interest in his female roles, the history plays, and the socio-historic legacy of theatrical interpretations. She is working on a PhD exploring Queenship in Shakespeare’s history plays. She is passionate about opening up diversity in the Arts and works with a range of agencies to ensure enhanced visibility for all sectors of society.
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SPEECH SECTION
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- 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
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VERSE SPEAKING (SET POEMS)
Please contact Vinay Sajip on 01923 226288 or vinay@watfordfestival.co.uk for a booklet containing the poems. Note that there may be different wordings in different published editions and performances will be judged according to the versions in the poem booklet we provide.
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S0 |
Reception Year & Under |
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£11.50 |
April Rain Song by Langston Hughes OR
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Night by Mary Ann Hoberman OR
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Who’s In? by Elizabeth Fleming
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S1 |
School Year 1 |
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£11.50 |
When All the World is Full of Snow by N M Bodecker OR
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Smells by Kathryn Worth OR
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The Terrible Cat of Black Velvet Fur by Karla Kuskin
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S2 |
School Year 2 |
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£11.50 |
The Secret Song by Margaret Wise Brown OR
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J is for Jazz Man by Eleanor Farjeon OR
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There is a Land by Leland B Jacobs
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S3 |
School Year 3 |
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£12.50 |
Hiding Places by Diana Hendry OR
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A Wood After Rain by Douglas Gibson OR
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Mother Doesn’t Want a Dog by Judith Viorst
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S4 |
School Year 4 |
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£12.50 |
What Shall I Draw? by Helen Dunmore OR
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Questions at Night by Louis Untermeyer OR
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Beware! by June Crebbin
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S5 |
School Year 5 |
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£12.50 |
Shouting at the Ocean by Gerard Benson OR
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Get Your Things Together, Hayley by Frances Nagle OR
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An Alley Cat With One Life Left by Jack Prelutsky
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S6 |
School Year 6 |
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£12.50 |
All of Us by Kit Wright OR
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If You Could See Laughter by Mandy Coe OR
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The Wolf by Georgia Roberts Durston
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S7 |
School Year 7 |
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£13.50 |
Who? by Charles Causley OR
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Famous by Naomi Shihab Nye OR
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Temporary and Permanent by Nikita Gill
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S8 |
School Year 8 |
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£13.50 |
The Orange Balloon by Stanley Cook OR
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Tracey’s Tree by Wes Magee OR
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Goldilocks by Carole Bromley
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PERFORMATIVE POETRY (OWN CHOICE - but NOT a set poem listed above)
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- Perform/act a piece of poetry with movement and expression.
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S9 |
School Years 9 & 10 |
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£13.50 |
S10 |
School Years 11 — 13 |
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£13.50 |
VERSE SPEAKING (OWN CHOICE – But NOT a set poem listed above)
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S11 |
Reception Year & Under |
1 min |
£11.50 |
S12 |
School Year 1 |
1 min |
£11.50 |
S13 |
School Year 2 |
2 mins |
£11.50 |
S14 |
School Year 3 |
2 mins |
£12.50 |
S15 |
School Year 4 |
2 mins |
£12.50 |
S16 |
School Year 5 |
2 mins |
£12.50 |
S17 |
School Year 6 |
2 mins |
£12.50 |
S18 |
School Years 7 & 8 |
3 mins |
£13.50 |
S19 |
School Years 9 & 10 |
3 mins |
£13.50 |
S20 |
School Years 11 — 13 |
3 mins |
£13.50 |
PROSE READING (OWN CHOICE)
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- The chosen piece of prose must be read from the pages of the book itself
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S23 |
School Years 2 & Under |
2 mins |
£11.50 |
S24 |
School Year 3 |
2 mins |
£12.50 |
S25 |
School Year 4 |
2 mins |
£12.50 |
S26 |
School Year 5 |
2 mins |
£12.50 |
S27 |
School Year 6 |
2 mins |
£12.50 |
S28 |
School Year 7 |
3 mins |
£13.50 |
S29 |
School Year 8 |
3 mins |
£13.50 |
S30 |
School Year 9 & 10 |
3 mins |
£13.50 |
S31 |
School Years 11 — 13 |
3 mins |
£13.50 |
STORYTELLING
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- Competitors to tell a story (known or invented) in their own words
- No costumes
- Props & visual aids permitted
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S32 |
School Years 6 & Under |
3 mins |
£12.50 |
PUBLIC SPEAKING
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- Prepared speech / talk on any topic
- Notes and visual aids permitted
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S33 |
School Years 6 & Under |
3 mins |
£12.50 |
S34 |
School Years 7 — 9 |
4 mins |
£13.50 |
S35 |
School Years 10 — 13 |
4 mins |
£13.50 |
SIGHT READING
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- Competitors are given a short prose passage to read aloud
- 2 minutes are allowed for preparation
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S36 |
School Years 3 & 4 |
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£12.50 |
S37 |
School Years 5 & 6 |
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£12.50 |
S38 |
School Years 7 — 9 |
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£13.50 |
S39 |
School Years 10 — 13 |
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£13.50 |
DRAMA SECTION
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ACTING
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- 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
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ELIZABETHAN, JACOBEAN OR RESTORATION
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Solo
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S46 |
School Years 7 — 9 |
4 mins |
£13.50 |
S47 |
School Years 10 — 13 |
4 mins |
£13.50 |
SCENE FROM A PLAY, SCREENPLAY, ADAPTED PROSE OR MONOLOGUE
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(excluding Elizabethan, Jacobean or Restoration)
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Solo
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S50 |
School Years 4 & Under |
3 mins |
£12.50 |
S51 |
School Years 5 & 6 |
3 mins |
£12.50 |
S52 |
School Years 7 — 9 |
4 mins |
£13.50 |
S53 |
School Years 10 — 13 |
4 mins |
£13.50 |
Duologue
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- * Please see note 4.4 in Regulations & General Information
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S54 |
School Years 4 & Under |
4 mins |
£20.00 |
S55 |
School Years 5 & 6 |
4 mins |
£20.00 |
S56 |
School Years 7 — 9 |
5 mins |
£21.00 |
S57 |
School Years 10 — 13 |
5 mins |
£21.00 |
GROUPS
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- All Own choice with the exception of Prepared Group Improvisation (Classes S62 - S65)
- All acting rules apply
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GROUP ACTING (Scene from a play, screenplay or novel)
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- Groups of 3 - 8 persons
- Script required for the adjudicator
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S59 |
School Years 13 & Under |
10 mins |
£68.00 |
GROUP ANTHOLOGY
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- Groups of 3 - 8 persons
- 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
- Must use material from more than one source, though the sources may all be by the same author
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S61 |
School Years 13 & Under |
10 mins |
£68.00 |
DEVISED SCENE
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- To prepare a scene inspired by one of the set titles
- Groups of 3 – 8 persons
- If an original script evolves through the rehearsal process this is permissible
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S62 |
School Years 6 & Under |
4 mins |
£51.00 |
A Great Day Out OR
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The Queen is coming for tea
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S63 |
School Years 9 & Under |
5 mins |
£55.00 |
I was only trying to help OR
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It isn’t fair
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S64 |
School Years 11 & Under |
5 mins |
£55.00 |
Lost For Words OR
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Believe in Yourself
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S65 |
School Years 13 & Under |
5 mins |
£55.00 |
The day nothing happened OR
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When the Fairy-tale goes wrong
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