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Post by Phoenix 4242424242424242424242 on Sept 7, 2005 2:39:03 GMT -5
Speech and Debate interscholastic competition, which may also include oral interpretation events. "Forensics" usually refers only to the debate events. :)Thanks for that, I appreciate it. |
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Post by Dear Dairy on Sept 7, 2005 16:07:10 GMT -5
You're welcome! Does your school have a Speech and/or Debate team?
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Post by Charles Vane on Sept 7, 2005 18:01:05 GMT -5
OOOOOOOOh . . . kay. That selection goes WAY beyond what I'd be comfortable with, decency-wise. The judges in this area (small schools, rural area) would run screaming out the door! 66.226.74.68/cirque.shtmlHeh and you said nothing was taboo. I think it rocks, I'm using it in class but not in a real competition. Which is sad because its the closest thing to humorous interp I've ever had. And that is nice but not prose. The magikarp piece is barely prose and it's probably only considered that cause its twisty at the end. |
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Post by Dear Dairy on Sept 7, 2005 22:25:47 GMT -5
When I said nothing was taboo, I was kinda being sarcastic. It seems most DI and Prose pieces these days are of the "I killed my battered mother for allowing my uncle to rape me after my gay brother was sent to prison for stealing drugs for her" variety. I personally wouldn't feel comfortable with that "magikarp" piece, and judges in my area are pretty conservative.
Technically, that ranting piece is prose (as opposed to poetry or drama forms), but I wouldn't use it because it's all on one level. I did find a really funny essay at that same site that I might use for HI, though. The style is fast-paced and multi-leveled.
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Post by Charles Vane on Sept 11, 2005 11:20:49 GMT -5
When I said nothing was taboo, I was kinda being sarcastic. It seems most DI and Prose pieces these days are of the "I killed my battered mother for allowing my uncle to rape me after my gay brother was sent to prison for stealing drugs for her" variety. I personally wouldn't feel comfortable with that "magikarp" piece, and judges in my area are pretty conservative. Technically, that ranting piece is prose (as opposed to poetry or drama forms), but I wouldn't use it because it's all on one level. I did find a really funny essay at that same site that I might use for HI, though. The style is fast-paced and multi-leveled. which piece is on one level? I don't think the magikarp piece is. Which piece did you find? And DI pieces are supposed to be darker not exactly what you described but people what do people expect of DI? You're not going to hear something fun in DI, get used to it. |
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Post by Dear Dairy on Sept 11, 2005 22:14:45 GMT -5
which piece is on one level? I don't think the magikarp piece is. Which piece did you find? And DI pieces are supposed to be darker not exactly what you described but people what do people expect of DI? You're not going to hear something fun in DI, get used to it. Sorry, I was referring to that ranting piece called "Cirque du ShutUp," that I put up the link for. It's all on one emotional level, pretty much - all ranting. Yes, I know DI is supposed be serious in tone (that's why they call it "dramatic" interpretation), but there are subjects besides rape, incest, AIDS, and serial murder that should work for DI, too. And yes, I know these issues are topical, but I've seen too many high school students take on subjects that are far out of their range of experience, and too many judges who think the only qualification of a good performer is the ability to cry on cue. The event is, after all, "interpretaton" and not "acting." I think "dramatic" can be anything in which the author's intention is not primarily to be humorous. It does not have to be tragic. It can touch the heart and/or mind and/or spirit without leaving the performer or the audience physically and emotionally exhausted. Of course, the other thing I really hate in DI is the saccharine, maudlin, emotionally manipulative stuff. Have you ever heard a piece called, "Stevie, Go Wash Your Hands?" Bleh. The one I found for HI is called "The Surgery Channel." It's really a really funny monologue that I hope won't get shot down because it doesn't have multiple characters. I'd tell you what it's about, but I tried explaining it to someone and it just sounded completely random and weird. You have to read it to get it. But I really like the author's voice, and the style will work well for HI, I think. I hope. |
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Post by Charles Vane on Sept 11, 2005 22:33:21 GMT -5
Link then?
I know what you were saying but so many people hate dramatic because they're expecting happy fun pieces and that doesnt happen in DI. So many people lump DI pieces together so it doesn't matter what you do but people won't like the piece.
Besides sometimes I'd perfer the hugely dramatic ones, or the cliche ones if people can't pick good irregular pieces. there was one weird one about a guy who hunted dragons but his family was killed and he had to go hunt more dragons or something, it was so confusing and another was a girl who basically had an eight minute piece about the different ways her father beat her. Now that I think about I almost don't want to enter into DI because I'll have to listen to pieces that are supposed to make me cry but they just make me cringe and feel like rocking back and forth. I'm pretty sure my piece from The Basic Eight last year made people want to do that but it was supposed to. Though I've always liked the people I met in DI.
Anyway the reason I like my DI piece this year is because I think it does touch the heart or mind or something without being too heavy. Which is weird because its a serious subject and the girl is really dejected but its still not overally dramatic which is probably rare. It's from a book called You Remind Me of Me which I think is a terrible title but the book is pretty.
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Post by Dear Dairy on Sept 12, 2005 17:16:50 GMT -5
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Post by Charles Vane on Sept 12, 2005 18:03:12 GMT -5
I meant the surgery one.
Know any funny Duo pieces?
We found some but they're just a bunch of people aruging.
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Post by Dear Dairy on Sept 12, 2005 23:14:26 GMT -5
Not off the top of my head, but I'll look in our team files.
We don't actually do Duo in our area - as I said, it's all semi-rural smallish schools, and none of us are NFL. All we have that's similar is Duet Acting. But I do have a few Duo pieces that I've picked up along the way, and I'll see what's there tomorrow. Do you want girl/guy, girl/girl, or guy/guy?
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Post by Charles Vane on Sept 13, 2005 7:08:22 GMT -5
Well we need is a piece for two people and we can arrange it how we like so duo/deut doesn't matter. Probably girl/girl, I go to an all girls school. In one of the pieces there was a married couple and the judges said the married man should be played by a man but are we supposed to do?
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Post by Dear Dairy on Sept 14, 2005 17:39:43 GMT -5
OK, here are some suggestions for duo. Please, no groaning or cries of "That's so overdone!" or "That's so old!" because I have no way of knowing what goes on where you are.
"Hard Candy" by Jonathan Rand (written for m/f, but could be adapted easily to f/f) from Playscripts, Inc.
"Lives of the Great Waitresses" by Nina Shengold, in book Plays for Actresses
"A . . . My Name Is Alice" (very common, you probably already have it)
"Family Names" by Edna Pelonero - from Samuel French in book Off Off Broadway Plays
"Parallel Lives" by Mo Gaffney/Kathy Najimy - from Dramatists Play Service
"The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde - an old/new classic that I've never seen at a contest. The Cecily/Gwendolyn scene in the garden (Act II) is lightweight and funny, but you'll have to adapt the end of the scene, or find a different way to end it.
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Post by Charles Vane on Sept 14, 2005 18:26:56 GMT -5
Ha, the girl I'm doing the duet with did Hard Candy as her humor piece. I don't think the Lives of Great Waitresses is right for duo, but I love the play. I'm going to look at the rest, I'm looking up Parallel Lives right now. We have two great duo pieces here that we used to pass around at my school and one of them is God by the same authors. I love that piece so much.
Rawr, will I have to buy these all to look at them?
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Post by Dear Dairy on Sept 14, 2005 22:20:01 GMT -5
Well, I have copies, but no scanner. Rawr indeed.
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