Our 2007-2008 Season!

Speech Tournaments
national & local, Sept - May

Improv Show
October 4-6, Lab Theater

Peter Pan
October 25-27, 2007
Seasholes Auditorium

Freshman Play
November 15-17
Lab Theater

December Cabaret
December 13-15
Lab Theater

Footloose
February 7-9, Auditorium

Electra
March 13-15
Lab Theater

Student Directed One-Acts
May 1-3, 2008
Lab Theater

Romeo & Juliet
25th Anniversary Shakespeare with North!
25th Anniversary Production!
May 8-10, 2008
performed at North in '08

Kindertransport
June, Lab Theatre

 

NEWTON SOUTH SPEECH TEAM

South Stage is extremely proud to be formally affiliated with the Newton South Speech Team, home to 8 National Finalists and 2 National Champions in the last five years. Speech Team offers performance opportunities well beyond the South Stage schedule. Actors, improvisers, debaters, novices and veterans routinely try their hand at Speech Tournaments every year. The friendships are fantastic, and the team works hard to help everyone raise the bar on their own performance.

www.southspeech.org

Events available for performance and competition include:

Dramatic Interpretation - memorized solo performance, serious, 8-10 minutes
Humerous Interpretation - memorized solo performance, comic, 8-10 minutes
Duo Interpretation - memorized pair performance, serious or comic, 8-10 minutes

Play Reading - solo performance of a play with script, 8-10 minutes
Poetry Reading - solo performance of one or more poems with script, 8-10 minutes
Prose Reading - solo performance of prose with script, 8-10 minutes
Children's Literature - solo performance with script, 8-10 minutes
Multiple Reading - 3 to 8 readers, staged reading, 8-12 minutes

Oratorical Declamation - memorized performance of a published speech, 8-10 min.
Original Oratory* - memorized performance of a speech you write yourself, 8-10 min.

Extemporaneous Speaking - current events, 30 minutes prep, no notes
Impromptu Speaking - 5 minute speech on a creative topic, 2-5 min prep
Student Congress - simulates a working session of the US Congress. Students debate legislation they have written and later vote on the resolutions. Students do not pretend to be members of the real US Congress, but instead speak for themselves and debate each other.

Radio Broadcasting - organize, edit, & read provided material, 30 min prep
Improv - usually 2 person teams, no prep time, only 2 tournaments a year.