Drama
If you love acting, then we would love to see you perform at WCAF! From improvising and devising to Shakespeare and dramatic sightreading, there are solo, duo and group competitive and non-competitive opportunities for everyone, of all ages, abilities and experience.
Large group entries are FREE if completed by 1st December 2024. Entries MUST be made online via Play&Perform.
New for this year are exciting acting workshops!
There are many competitive and non-competitive opportunities to perform monologues and solo scenes. You can perform your own choice of solo or enter one of the Shakespeare classes. For experienced performers there are the open acting and comedy acting classes. The Festival Prize for Solo Acting is a great opportunity to offer several different performances and comes with a prize of £50!
Middle Ground Theatre Company is offering a week's work experience to a young performer who displays excellence in acting at the festival. This will be awarded at the adjudicators' discretion.
There are solo, duo and group opportunities to devise, prepare and perform your own piece of drama. Solo competitive classes include both set verses and 'own choice' poetry, along with sonnets. Use the prompts and stimuli in the syllabus to help inspire you!
For anyone who is good at thinking on their feet, the new Improvisation classes are for you! The adjudicator will give you a prompt and some time to prepare, then you will perform your short piece.
Entries MUST be made online via Play&Perform.
This is another new category for 2025. Performers will be given a short passage and 5 minutes to read and practice their performance. The performer will then give an acted performance while holding amd reading from the script.
Entries MUST be made online via Play&Perform.
For the first time, the team at Worcester Theatres will be offering non-competitive acting workshops at WCAF for young people aged from 7 upwards and for adults. The workshops will take place on the music day on Saturday 8th March. They will look at monologues and characterisation.
Actors who are also musicians or singers may also wish to enter the Sproule Prize. The Sproule Prize is for performers up to the age of 15. Competitors must perform a poem or an acted scene AND a song or a piece of music on any instrument.
