35th Annual Shakespeare Competition

The 35th annual Shakespeare Competition for Greenwich, Stamford and other Connecticut high school students will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday, February 26th, at the Parish Hall, Christ Church Greenwich. The competition is open to students in Grades 9-12 from public, independent and parochial high schools. Students are selected by their schools in preliminary competition for advancement to Wednesday’s branch competition.
Participants are required to perform from memory a monologue of no more than 20 lines from one of Shakespeare’s plays and to recite a sonnet by Shakespeare.
Three noted personalities in the theatre world will be judging their performances: Allan Zeller, Jo Anne Parady and Florence Phillips.
The first-prize winner on February 26th will advance to the ESU’s National Shakespeare Competition scheduled for Monday, April 27th, 2020, in New York City.
The Competition, which is free and open to the public, is jointly sponsored by the Greenwich Branch of the English-Speaking Union and the Smith College Club of Greenwich-Stamford. Competition co-chairs are Anne Hall Elser of the ESU and Caterina Kavanagh of the Smith College Club.