Download Male Shakespeare - Kiwanis Club of Sudbury

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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.
SHAKESPEARE (MALE)
INTERMEDIATE
Age group
Description
Class Code
Fee
16 yrs and under
Choose ONE(1) of the following:
SAD-16-SM
$20.00
a) Romeo & Juliet
By W. Shakespeare
Romeo: But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief
That thou her maid art far more fair than she.
Be not her maid, since she is envious.
Her vestal livery is but sick and green,
And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off.
It is my lady; O, it is my love!
O that she knew she were!
She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that?
Her eye discourses; I will answer it.
I am too bold; 'tis not to me she speaks.
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars
As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!
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Kiwanis Music Festival of
Sudbury
Entry deadline – January 15
School deadline – January 31
Intermediate Male Shakespeare (SAD-16-SM)
b) As You Like It
by W. Shakespeare
Jacques: All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like a snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like a furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Intermediate Male Shakespeare (SAD-16-SM)
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Kiwanis Music Festival of
Sudbury
Entry deadline – January 15
School deadline – January 31
c) Romeo & Juliet
by W. Shakespeare
Mercutio: O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate stone
On the forefinger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Over men's noses as they lie asleep;
Her wagon spokes made of long spinners' legs,
The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers;
Her traces, of the smallest spider web;
Her collars, of the moonshine's wat'ry beams;
Her whip, of cricket's bone; the lash, of film;
Her wagoner, a small grey-coated gnat,
Not half so big as a round little worm
Pricked from the lazy finger of a maid;
Her chariot is an empty hazelnut,
Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,
Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers.
And in this state she gallops night by night
Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love;
O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on curtsies straight;
O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees;
O'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream,
Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues,
Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are.
Sometimes she gallops o'er a courtier's nose,
And then dreams he of smelling out a suit;
And sometimes comes she with a tithe-pig's tail
Tickling a parson's nose as 'a lies asleep,
Then dreams he of another benefice.
Sometimes she driveth o'er a soldier's neck,
And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,
Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,
Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon
Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,
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School deadline – January 31
And being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two
And sleeps again. This is that very Mab
That plats the manes of horses in the night
And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,
Which once untangled much misfortune bodes.
This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,
That presses them and learns them first to bear,
Making them women of good carriage.
This is she!
Intermediate Male Shakespeare (SAD-16-SM)
d) Two Gentlemen of Verona
by W. Shakespeare
Launce: When a man's servant shall play the cur with him, look
you, it goes hard: one that I brought up of a puppy, one that I
saved from drowning when three or four of his blind brothers and
sisters went to it. I have taught him, even as one would say
precisely, 'Thus I would teach a dog.' I was sent to deliver him as a
present to Mistress Silvia from my master, and I came no sooner
into the dining chamber but he steps me to her trencher and steals
her capon's leg. O, 'tis a foul thing when a cur cannot keep himself
in all companies! I would have, as one should say, one that takes
upon him to be a dog indeed, to be, as it were, a dog at all things.
If I had not had more wit than he, to take a fault upon me that he
did, I think verily he had been hanged for't. Sure as I live, he had
suffered for't. You shall judge. He thrusts me himself into the
company of three or four gentleman-like dogs under the Duke's
table. He had not been there -- bless the mark -- a pissing-while
but all the chamber smelt him. 'Out with the dog,' says one. 'What
cur is that?' says another. 'Whip him out,' says the third. 'Hang him
up,' says the Duke. I, having been acquainted with the smell
before, knew it was Crab, and goes me to the fellow that whips the
dogs. 'Friend,' quoth I, 'you mean to whip the dog?' 'Ay, marry, do
I,' quoth he. 'You do him the more wrong,' quoth I; ''twas I did the
thing you wot of.' He makes me no more ado, but whips me out of
the chamber. How many masters would do this for his servant?
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Sudbury
Entry deadline – January 15
School deadline – January 31
Nay, I'll be sworn, I have sat in the stocks for puddings he hath
stol'n, otherwise he had been executed. I have stood in the pillory
for geese he hath killed, otherwise he had suffered for't. Thou
think'st not of this now. Nay, I remember the trick you served me
when I took my leave of Madam Silvia. Did not I bid thee still
mark me and do as I do? When didst thou see me heave up my leg
and make water against a gentlewoman's farthingale? Didst thou
ever see me do such a trick?
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