Individual Events
- Acting-a one act play or a segment of a play, book, or other published material
- Poetry-speak a poem or poems
- Prose-speak a section of a book or other published material
- After Dinner Speaking-a speech like what would be given after a formal dinner about anything
- Improvisational Acting-a short made-up skit, often humorous. 3 characters and 2 situations are drawn, must include 2 characters and one situation from those drawn
- Radio News Broadcasting-a radio program made up of current news and drawn up and performed by one person (not to be confused with LG radio) that should cover most news including a commercial and a news flash.
- Spontaneous Speaking-a short made-up speech concerning important issues such as the War in Iraq, padlocks on lockers, etc. Draw 3 topics and choose 1.
- Original Oratory-a speech created by the speaker.
- Review-A general review of a book, movie, compact disc, or other published material.
- Storytelling-speaker tells a short story, memorized. Speaker must sit on a stool and pretend to be telling the story to an audience. The story may be a children's story or have an adult content.
- Literary Program-a combination between poetry and prose categories
- Public Address-speaker gives another persons' speech. Such as the "Gettysburg Address" by Abraham Lincoln, however the Address is too short to be given at contest.
- Expository-a "how-to" speech; a speech that explains how something works; an explanatory speech.
- Solo Musical Theater-speaker sings a song and acts it out. The speaker may record his voice to the song ahead of time, however the voice and the song must be together.
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