Our 2009-2010 Season!

2009-2010 Speech Tournament Schedule
national & local

Improv Show
October 1-3, 2009
Lab Theater

Burial at Thebes
October 22-24, 2009
Seasholes Auditorium

Freshman Play
November 15-17, 2009
Lab Theater

Sweet Charity
February 4-6, 2010
Auditorium

South Stage Cabaret
March 18-20, 2010
Lab Theater

Student Directed One-Acts
April 29-May 3, 2010
Lab Theater

Shakespeare
May 6-8 at North

Proof
June 3-5, 2010
Lab Theatre

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
2010 TOURNAMENT RESULTS

SOUTH SPEECH tied for 6th place overall out of 69 schools from 12 different states. Individual results:

1st Place - Oral Interpretation (prose/poetry reading) - Jackie Lebovits
2nd Place - Extemporaneous Speaking - Lucky Liyanage
4th Place - Original Oratory - Jolie Yu
6th Place - Extemporaneous Speaking - Justin Kieran

Semi-Finalist - Dramatic Performance - Jocelin Weiss

Quarter-Finalist - Dramatic Performance - Harry Neff
Quarter-Finalist - Oral Interpretation (prose/poetry reading) - Daniel Bender Stern
Quarter-Finalist - Oral Interpretation (prose/poetry reading) - Allie Glickman

Octo-Finalists - Public Forum Debate - Morgan Seiler & Ben Tolkin
semi-Octo-Finalists - Public Forum Debate - Connie Gong & Thomas Li

South Stage is proud to be formally affiliated with the Newton South Speech Team, home to 11 National Finalists and 5 National Champions in the last five years. Speech offers challenging 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 Performance - memorized solo performance, serious, comic or mixed, 8-10 minutes (HI and DI have been merged into this one event for 2009-2010)
Duo Interpretation - memorized pair performance, serious, comic or mixed, 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

*The school-wide Sophomore Speech Contest is based on this event.

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.

Improv - usually 2 person teams, no prep time, only 2 tournaments a year. It is not possible to join the team simply to do improv.

Last updated on January 25, 2010