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Kiwanis Music Festival of
Sudbury
SPEECH ARTS AND DRAMA
Entry deadline – January 15
School deadline – January 31
Level: Intermediate
Memory IS required
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Props are NOT PERMITTED except for a single chair if performer prefers to deliver
from a seated position
Selections recommended below are approximately 2 - 3 min. in length.
DRAMA (FEMALE)
INTERMEDIATE
Age group
Description
Class Code
Fee
16 yrs and under
Choose ONE(1) of the following:
SAD-16-DF
$20.00
a) And Turning, Stay
by Kellie Powell
Amy: Don't you dare walk away from me! And don't tell me you're
sorry! And don't tell me to forget it, and don't you dare tell me to "let it
go." God knows, I'd like to. I wish I could, but I can't! I can't forget that
we had something, and you're running away. You're running away! Don't
you see, Mark? You're running from what I've searched for all my life!
Why, because you're scared? Well, I'm scared too, but you and I - we
have something worth fighting for. We could make it work, I'm not
saying it would be easy, but I care about you. And I know deep down,
under this (Spitting out the word.) bravado, you care about me. And
that's what it's all about, Mark, don't you get it? It's the human
experience. You can pretend all you want, but you're only lying to
yourself. You're denying the simple and wonderful fact that you are
emotional, and vulnerable, and alive. Can you honestly stand there and
tell me that I mean nothing to you? That everything that happened that
night was a lie? That you feel nothing? (AMY is crying or close to it. The
following is a painful statement that she makes not to attack or threaten
Mark but rather, to allow herself closure with the situation.) I feel sorry
for you, Mark. I'll move on. I'll find someone else. I'll be all right,
because I will know that I tried. That I did everything I could. But
someday you will look back, and you will realize what you threw away.
And you will regret it always.
Intermediate Female Dramatic (SAD-16-DF)
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Kiwanis Music Festival of
Sudbury
Entry deadline – January 15
School deadline – January 31
b) The Diary of Anne Frank
Adapted by Francis Goodrich and Albert Hackett
Anne: Look, Peter, the sky. What a lovely, lovely day. Aren’t the
clouds beautiful? You know what I do when it seems as if I
couldn’t stand being cooped up for one more minute? I think
myself out. I think myself on a walk in the park where I used to go
with Pim. You know the most wonderful thing about thinking
yourself out? You can have it anyway you like.
I wish you had a religion, Peter. Oh, I don’t mean you have to be
Orthodox. I just mean some religion. It doesn’t matter what. When
I think if all that’s out there, and the goodness of the people we
know, all risking their lives for us every day, when I think of these
good things, I’m
not afraid anymore.
I know it’s terrible, trying to have any faith, when people are doing
such horrible things... But I still believe, in spite of everything,
that people are really good at heart.
Listen to us, going at each other like a couple of stupid grown-ups.
Look at the sky now, isn’t it lovely?
Intermediate Female Dramatic (SAD-16-DF)
c) Like Dreaming, Backwards
by Kellie Powell
Natalie: I dropped her off, that night, about a quarter to two. I
should have asked her to come over. Or at least asked her if
anything was wrong. But she seemed normal. Not happy, exactly.
But... like herself.
I met her freshman year, in Introduction to British Literature. We
made each other laugh. She was... bitter, and cynical, but still,
really nice... I knew she had depression... but... it was weird. We
had fun together, you know? I never really made sense of that.
That night, we saw a play. And then we went to a midnight movie.
I was nodding off through the last half of it, I'd gotten up early that
morning to go running. And, I keep wondering... if there was
something... in the play, or in the movie, some trigger, or...
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Kiwanis Music Festival of
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Entry deadline – January 15
School deadline – January 31
some reason. Something that could... set her off, you know?
Something I missed.
I just keep trying to look for clues. For answers. She had survived
so much. Why that night?
Intermediate Female Dramatic (SAD-16-DF)
d) Street Scene
by Elmer Rice
Rose: Well I haven’t really had any time to do much thinking. But
really think the best thing I could do is get out of New York. Like
we were saying this morning, how things might be different if you
only had a chance to breathe and spread out a little.
I like you so much, Sam. I like you better than anybody I know. It
would be so nice to be with you, but I’m just wondering how it
would work out. Suppose something was to happen--well suppose
I was to have a baby, say. What would we do then? We’d be tied
down then, for life, just like all the other people around here.
I don’t think people ought to belong to anybody but themselves.
That’s why I don’t want to belong to anybody, and why I don’t
want anybody to belong to me. I want love more than anything
else in the world. But loving and belonging aren’t the same thing.
Maybe someday, when we’re older and wiser, things will be
different.
Don’t look as if it were the end of the world, Sam. If you’d only
believe in yourself a little more, things wouldn’t look nearly so
bad. Because once you’re sure of yourself, the things that happen
to you aren’t so important. I’m so fond of you, Sam. And I’ve got
such a lot of confidence in you. Give me a kiss.
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