Johannesburg

 

 SHAKESPEARE MONOLOGUE COMPETITION 
and
NATIONAL CHILDRENS THEATRE
SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL

At the OUTDOOR IMAGINATION THEATRE AT NATIONAL CHILDREN’S THEATRE: 3 JUNCTION ROAD, PARKTOWN

Individuals are invited to present monologues.  Pairs are invited to present duologues.  Groups are invited to present scenes from Shakespeare’s plays. Sonnets, adaptations and/or musical renditions are also welcome. You may opt to enter the competitions or to present speeches or scenes just for fun.

Individuals and pairs are allowed 5 minutes.  Group scenes should be no longer than 10 minutes.

There will be three sections: Junior (up to Grade 7), Senior (Grade 8-12) and Adult.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING IN THE SHAKESPEARE MONOLOGUE COMPETITION OR THE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, PLEASE CONTACT DR ROHAN QUINCE AT rquince@global.co.za 

SHAKESPEARE MONOLOGUE COMPETITION 2024

The annual collaboration between National Children’s Theatre and the South African Council for English Education continued in 2024.  The preliminary rounds of the Shakespeare Festival and Monologue Competition took place in the indoor Imagination Theatre at NCT on 13-15 May 2024, with the finals on 16 May. 

There were entries from King Edward VII School, Parktown Boys’ High, St Teresa’s School, the University of Pretoria, St Dominic’s Catholic School for Girls, Helpmekaar, Summerhill, Sutherland High and NCT’s Shakespeare Club, as well as several private entries from as far afield as Polokwane!  Eventually forty-six monologues, fourteen duologues and eleven scenes were entered in the junior, senior and adult sections over the four days of the festival, taken from more than twenty plays and the sonnets.  Selections ranged from well known plays like Hamlet and Macbeth to less popular plays like King Henry VI, Part 3 and Pericles.

The winners were:

JUNIOR MONOLOGUE

Winner – Tenike Kieswetter as Miranda in The Tempest
Runner-Up – Muhammad Wadee as Duke Senior in As You Like It
Runner-Up – Naeem Dada as Hamlet in Hamlet

 JUNIOR DUOLOGUE

Winner – Aliyah Dada and Omar Gani as Juliet and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet

 SENIOR MONOLOGUE

Winner – NCT – Joseph Schultz as Edgar in King Lear
Winner – King Edward VII – Emilio dos Santos as Hamlet in Hamlet
Runner-Up – Helpmekaar – Paul Bester as Mark Antony in Julius Caesar and Launce in The Two Gentlemen of Verona   
  Runner-Up – King Edward VII – Lwango Tom as Claudius in Hamlet
Runner-Up – Sutherland – Sashika Chinsamy as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth
Runner-Up – St Dominic’s – Peyton Thomas as Helena in All’s Well that Ends Well

 SENIOR DUOLOGUE

Winner – St Dominic’s – Stella Pienaar and Emma Rose as the witches in Macbeth

 SENIOR SCENE

Winner – Sutherland – Romeo and Juliet – a modern version entitled “Love Bytes – A Social Media Tragedy” – Ubuntu Masiza, Sijabulile Nxumalo, Temogo Mabogoane, Vhulenda Mphaphuliu, Thabea Moepi, Jagger Vermeulen

 ADULT MONOLOGUE

Winner – University of Pretoria’s Inklings – Christian Muller performing the sonnets in the original pronunciation.
Runner-Up – University of Pretoria’s Inklings – Joshua Wilensky as Don Armado in Love’s Labour’s Lost and King Lear in King Lear
Runner-Up – University of Pretoria’s Inklings – Natasha Holdsworth as Viola in Twelfth Night and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth

 ADULT DUOLOGUE

Winner – NCT– The Merry Wives of Windsor – Mistress Page and Mistress Ford – Reynard Vos and Joshua Wilensky
Runner-Up – University of Pretoria’s Inklings – Othello – Iago and Roderigo – Mmotegi Mothiba and Naledi Motea

ADULT SCENE

Winner – NCT – Richard III – The death of Clarence – Joseph Schultz, Reynard Vos and Joshua Wilensky
Runner-Up – University of Pretoria’s Inklings – Julius Caesar – Death of Cassius – Karla van Dyk, Katherine Armstrong, Clement Cameron, Zchané Zietsman, Naledi Motea, Sita Rampershad
Runner-Up – University of Pretoria’s Inklings – Pericles – brothel scene – Mmotegi Mothiba, Anouk Cilliers, Naledi Motea, Anomé Victor

Thank you to National Children’s Theatre and the South African Council for English Education for promoting Shakespeare!
Well done to all the talented performers and their dedicated teachers and parents for their support.

Creative Writing Competition 2024

SACEE (JHB) in association with King David High School Victory Park is proud to present the 2024 ANNUAL SACEE CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITION. This is a highly regarded, very successful competition, which has grown in leaps and bounds. We enthusiastically encourage the support and participation of any and all schools in South Africa and adjacent countries.  One of SACEE’s main aims is to develop the good use of English in both spoken and written forms.

To enter please download the entry form.

We would like to thank all schools who participated in the 2023 competition. 

Congratulations to the following 2023 award winners:For results of the 2022 Creative Writing Competition click here.

For more information about the SACEE/Gauteng Schools debating and entry form please click here.

The 2023 results and report can be viewed here.