The Newton South Speech Team claimed its
second straight state championship on April 4th,
barely edging powerhouse Milton Academy. It was
a strong tournament, and South's margin of victory was
just three points out of 238 earned overall.
Congratulations to all the outstanding speakers from South, Milton, Bancroft, Sacred Heart, Shrewsbury, Natick, Catholic Memorial, Acton-Boxborough, Newton North and all thirty schools which qualified students for this tournament!

South Stage is extremely 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.

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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.