When you're ready...
These short speeches have been
written for use in examinations and auditions expressly for students
aged between 13 and 18. They are all original and have never appeared
in print before. In some cases they are adapted from the author’s own
recently published plays, but these too have been especially extended
or rewritten for this collection.
The intention was to provide a
resource for use by today’s Drama student, and to offer a range of
accents, dialects, moods, themes, emotions and historical periods, as
well as being non gender specific in several of the speeches. The
author is a Drama teacher herself and has 25 years experience to call
on.
It is hoped that as well as
being useful for solo work the pieces will also spark devised work,
character studies, hot seating, further research and stimulation. The
speeches are all between approximately 600- 900 words in length, and
some work together, in pairs or 4’s, to tell a story from several
perspectives.
The students may well recognise
the fictional or historical characters drawn on; again, hopefully this
will lead to an interest in the source material.
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