Speech & Drama Programme

SPEECH AND DRAMA SECTION

SATURDAY MORNING 19th OCTOBER 2024 ‎VENUE: HAZEL GROVE METHODIST ‎CHURCH

ROOM: M1‎                                                                       Adjudicator: Susan Mackay

9.00 am              CLASS 101          Verse Speaking, 6-7 years

Own Choice - see General Regulation 1(h) Time limit: 2 minutes

1            Carter Whatling Stockport Fastest Kid in School
2            Arya Marshall Stockport The Runners Alan Ahlberg
3            Charlie Wood Stockport Hair Cut Alan Ahlberg
4            Amelia Jing Wilmslow There Are Big Waves Eleanor Fargeon
5            Arya Gaffarian Rad Wilmslow Goodness Gracious Margeret Mahey
6            Marnie Todd Wilmslow My Neighbour’s Dog Is Purple Jack Prelutsky
7            Oliver Styles Wilmslow I Don’t Want To Go To School Colin McNaughton

 

9.30 am     CLASS 100     Verse Speaking, Non-competitive, Age 5 years

Own Choice - see General Regulation 1(h)  Each performance will receive a certificate and adjudicator’s comments. Time limit: 2 minutes

 1  Isla Eden  Sale  New Shoes  Anon

 

9.40 am       CLASS 182         Duologues, 7 years & under

Own Choice - see General Regulation 1(h) No costumes allowed - small hand props only Time limit:  4 minutes

1          Carter Whatling & Charlie Wood            Stockport                Team Talk

 

9. 50 am       CLASS 183      Duologues, 8-10 years

Own Choice - see General Regulation 1(h) No costumes allowed - small hand props only Time limit: 5 minutes

1            Molly Matesco & Evie Jones Stockport            Ownership
2            Orlando Whatling & Max Coleman Stockport            Quiet
3            Lucy Edie & Coleisey Lloyd Stockport            Little Women Louis. M. Alcott

 

‎10.10 am‎          CLASS 170‎           Solo Drama, 10 years & under

Own Choice - see General Regulation 1(h)‎ No costumes allowed - small hand props ‎only Time limit: 3 minutes (time to include ‎introduction)‎

1            Orla Coyle Stockport            Trouble At Home Penny Phillips
2            Orlando Whatling Stockport            The Witches Roald Dahl
3            Max Coleman Stockport            The Class Trip Paul Todd
4            Molly Matesco Stockport            The Worst Witch Paul Todd
5            Kitty Groarke-Booth Gee Cross           Beauty and the Beast Lucy Kirkwood Adapted by Katie Mitchell
6            Elliana Brown Wilmslow Laura Luck Emma L Tinniswood
7            Maggie Grimwood Wilmslow Molly Ruth Mae Roddy
8            Lysander Long Wilmslow The Big Bad Wolf Eleanor McCloed
9            Saoirse McGee Stockport Magic Mirror E.C.Brereton

 

‎10.50 - 11.05am ‎    Break ‎

 

11.05 am            CLASS 102          Verse Speaking, 8-9 years

Own Choice - see General Regulation 1(h) Time limit: 2 minutes

1 Zara Kasmi Wilmslow I Tried to Do My Homework Ken Nesbitt
2 William Jing Wilmslow The Dodo Peter Wesley Smith

 

‎11.15 am               CLASS 195‎                         Creative Performance, 7-10 years

Groups to devise a piece of work on a theme of their own ‎choice based on a piece of music.‎
The piece must include two of the following dramatic ‎conventions: prologue and/or epilogue, tableaux, narration, ‎monologue, chorus.‎
Time limit for groups of 10 or fewer: 10 minutes‎. Time limit for groups of 11 or more: 15 minutes

‎1‎                   AB Academy                                Stockport                                    The Chase

‎2‎                   Principal Performers                    Swinton

 

11.40 am           CLASS 175                Solo Comedy, 10 years & under

Own Choice – see General Regulation 1(h) No costumes allowed – small hand props only Time limit: 3 minutes (time to include introduction)

 

1             Evie Jones                 Stockport            Charlie and the Chocolate Factory           Roald Dahl

2             Lucy Edie                  Stockport            The Demon Headmaster                          Gillian Cross

 

11.50 am            CLASS 155          Prose Reading, 10-11 years

Own Choice - see General Regulation 1(h) Time limit: 2 minutes

1            Anoushka Chatterjee Wilmslow Danny Champion of the World Roald Dahl
2            Davinia Lea Cheadle Hulme Mallory Towers Book 1 Enid Blyton

 

12.00 noon                       SINGLE ENTRY PROSE READING PERFORMANCE CLASSES CLASS 156        Prose Reading, 12-13 years

Own Choice - see General Regulation 1(h) Time limit: 2 minutes

 

1            Esme Reynaud   Sale       When The World Was Ours          Liz Reasler

 

CLASS 158          Prose Reading, 14-15 years

Own Choice - see General Regulation 1(h) Time limit: 3 minutes

 

1            Linchong Kong   Sale       Wonder R. J. Palacio

 

CLASS 159          Prose Reading, 16 years & above

Own Choice - see General Regulation 1(h) Time limit: 3 minutes

 

1            David Cullis        Alderley Edge    A Tale of Two Cities         Charles Dickens

 

Classes 156, 158, and 159 will be judged according to the criteria for the respective age group and an ‘overall’ winner selected.

 

 

 

12.15 pm            CLASS 187          Acted Scene, 7 years & under

No costumes allowed - small hand props only Not less than 3 characters Time limit: 6 minutes Own Choice - see General Regulation 1(h)

 

1            AB Academy      Stockport            Fate       Ann Cartwright

 

12.30 pm            CLASS 188          Acted Scene, 8-10 years

No costumes allowed - small hand props only Not less than 3 characters Time limit: 10 minutes Own Choice – see General Regulation 1(h)

 

1            AB Academy      Stockport            Alice in Wonderland        Lewis Carrol

 

Classes 187 and 188 will be judged according to the criteria for the respective age group and an ‘overall’ winner selected.

 

 

12.45 pm           CLASS 122       Verse Recital, 16 years & above

Competitors to introduce and present three poems, one of which must be a sonnet, on a theme of their own choice to show contrasting styles of verse. The time allowed includes brief words of introduction and/or links between the poems. Time limit: 10 minutes

 

1            David Cullis        Alderley Edge    Aspects of Love

                                                                  The Hound of Heaven     Francis Thompson

                                                                  Valentine            Carol-Ann Duffy

                                                                  Sonnet 29           William Shakespeare

 

Lunch

 

2.00 pm              CLASS 171          Solo Drama, 11-12 years

Own Choice - see General Regulation 1(h) No costumes allowed - small hand props only Time limit: 4 minutes (time to include introduction)

‎1‎           Leila Holt                      Stockport               Crown Breaking                      Jill Rebecca Young

‎2‎           Caoimhe McGee          Stockport                Blackberry Trout Face             Eleanor McCleod

‎4‎           Arthur Copeland          Stockport                Marylou Meets the Dragon   David Rawlins

‎5‎           Anoushka Chatterjee   Wilmslow                Rehearsal Notes                     Lynne C Jones‎

6‎           Esme Reynaud             Sale                         Little Miss Muffet                   Eleanor McCleod

 

2.30 pm              CLASS 175          Solo Comedy, 10 years & under

Own Choice – see General Regulation 1(h) No costumes allowed – small hand props only  Time limit: 3 minutes (time to include introduction)

‎1‎                Evie Jones                Stockport               Charlie and the Chocolate Factory            Roald Dahl

‎2‎                Lucy Edie                 Stockport               The Demon Headmaster                           Gillian Cross

 

2.40 pm              CLASS 172          Solo Drama, 13-14 years

Own Choice - see General Regulation 1(h) No costumes allowed - small hand props only  Time limit: 4 minutes (time to include introduction)

‎1‎             Polly Norton             Stockport         A Woman of No Importance        Oscar Wilde
‎2‎             Tilda Chadwick         Stockport         Anne Frank                                   Albert Hackett & Francis Goodrich
‎3‎             Bea Groarke-Booth  Gee Cross         Orange Blossom Girl                    Joan Macalpine
‎4‎             Jainam Chatterjee     Wilmslow         Private Peaceful                           Michael Morpurgo

 

2.55 pm              CLASS 173          Solo Drama, 15-16 years

Own Choice – see General Regulation 1(h) No costumes allowed – small hand props only  Time limit: 4 minutes (time to include introduction)

1                     Darcy Renée Cassidy

2                     Caitlin Lynam

3                     Tarkhan Pelivan

Wilmslow

Rochdale

Stockport

Dracula

Almost

I Hate Hamlet

Stephen Hoechner

Gabriel Davis

Paul Kudnik

 

 

‎3.10 pm          CLASS 176‎          Solo Comedy, 11-12 years

Own Choice – see General Regulation 1(h) No costumes allowed – small hand ‎props only Time limit: 4 minutes (time to include introduction)‎

1            Coleisy Lloyd      Stockport            Orange Blossom Girl       Joan McAlpine

CLASS 178          Solo Comedy, 15-16 years

Own Choice – see General Regulation 1(h) No costumes allowed – small hand props only Time limit: 4 minutes (time to include introduction)

1            Darcy Renée Cassidy       Wilmslow           Fire the Boys      Gabriel Davis

 

Classes 176 and 178 will be judged according to the criteria for the respective age group and an ‘overall’ winner selected.

 

 

3.30 pm              CLASS 108          Verse Speaking, 11-13 years

Own Choice - see General Regulation 1(h) Time limit: 4 minutes

1            Davinia Lea         Cheadle Hulme  Truth     Barrie Wade

 

 

3.40 pm              CLASS 111          Verse Speaking, 14-15 years

Own Choice - see General Regulation 1(h) Time limit: 4 minutes

1            Jainam Chatterjee           Wilmslow           Stopp All the Clocks              W.H.Auden

 

3.50pm CLASS 112          Verse Speaking, 16 years & above

Own Choice - see General Regulation 1(h) Time limit: 4 minutes

1            David Cullis        Alderley Edge    You Being Born  Brian Jones

 

The winner giving the best performance of Classes 111 & 112 will awarded the Huw Lloyd Rowlands Trophy

 

4.00-4.15pm Break

 

4.15pm               CLASS 192          A Duologue from a Musical, (Open) which may include the first verse (only) of the song that follows the dialogue

Own Choice - see General Regulation 1(h) No costumes allowed - small hand props only If you include a song, you must provide your own accompaniment.

1            Tarkhan Phelivan & Logan Ellis             Stockport            Into the Woods        Steven Sondheim

 

‎4.30pm‎              CLASS 184‎          Duologues, 11-14 years

Own Choice - see General Regulation 1(h) No costumes allowed - small hand ‎props only Time limit: 4 minutes

‎1‎          Anoushka Chatterjee & ‎Jainam Chatterjee     Wilmslow        Great Expectations     Charles Dickens

 

Classes 184, and 192 will be judged according to the criteria for the respective discipline/age group and an ‘overall’ winner selected.

 

 

4.40pm              CLASS 145       Performance Poetry Open

Perform from memory a piece with physical gestures, emphases, and the intention to engage with the audience as a key feature.

1            David Cullis        Alderley Edge    Annie McClure   Murray Lachlan Young

 

4.45pm              CLASS 146.      Write and Speak a Poem, Non-competitive Open

Competitors are to write a poem on a subject of their own choice which they will read aloud at the Festival.

1            Janet Nightingale Hazel Grove An Ode to Old Cuisine
and No Cushions on the Bed Janet Nightingale
2            Corinne Lawrence Bramhall Arachne’s Glue Corinne Lawrence

 

5.00 pm              CLASS 141          Shakespeare Solo, 15 years & above

Own Choice from any play Time limit: 7 minutes

1            David Cullis Alderley Edge As You Like It William Shakespeare
2            Tarkan Pehlivan Stockport Henry VI Part 3 William Shakespeare

 

5.20 pm              CLASS 185          Duologues, 15-18 years

Own Choice - see General Regulation 1(h) No costumes allowed - small hand props only Time limit:  4 minutes

 

1            Tarkhan Pehlivan & Logan Ellis            Stockport            Daughters of Venice              Don Taylor

 

‎5.30 pm          CLASS 174‎                    Solo Drama, Open (17 years & above)‎

Own Choice – see General Regulation 1(h)‎  No costumes allowed – small hand props only  Time limit: 4 minutes (time to include introduction)‎

1 David Cullis Alderley Edge Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe
2 Logan Ellis Stockport Lovers and Other Strangers Renee Taylor