SAUSD Winter Classic

2024 — Hybrid: Online & Saddleback HS, CA/US

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Intermediate DUO Interpretation

Event Description:

This includes categories of individual (solo) performances of dramatic (serious) and humorous literature, as well as duo performances of either emotive appeal, with selections drawn from published, printed: novels, short stories, plays, poetry, or other printed, published works, PDFs, e-books, as well as limited online and recorded works as provided for in the rules below.

1. Divisions: Contests are conducted in Dramatic, Humorous, Duo, and Program Oral Interpretation. See additional rules for the supplemental interpretation events of Poetry, Prose, and Storytelling.

2. Length: The time limit in Interpretation Main Events (Dramatic, Humorous, Duo, and Program Oral Interpretation) is ten minutes with a 30-second “grace period.” Should a student go beyond the grace period, the student may not be ranked 1st.. No minimum time is mandated.

3.In Duo Interpretation, each of the two performers may play one or more characters so long as performance responsibility in the cutting remains as balanced as possible.

4. Focus: In Duo Interpretation, focus may be direct during the introduction [the performers may look at each other] but must be indirect [off-stage] during the performance itself.