Live from the NFL: Dramatic Interpretation

The round started off by the announcer telling the audience that one of the final contestents in DI went on to star on the hit TV show Ugly betty.

Code: 290 ~ Beast of No Nation

This was the piece that got first this year at NFL Nationals. It was beautifully done, really well done. The piece was basically about what happens to a boy soldier when civil war breaks out in his West African nation. The boy, Agu, becomes a rebel soldier when his family is taken away from him by the war and he finds that war is not as romantic as he once imagined it would be.

Code: 113-A Time of Terror ~ Robert L. Whitely (Glenbrook South HS)

“After 83 years the ladies still comin.’ Dispite it’s bits of funny one-liners this piece deals with a serious subject matter. A Time of Terror tells the story of the lynching of two boys that divided a nation and of the third one that survived the ordeal. This preformance so captivated the audience that if a pin had dropped, the ping would have been clearly audible. The piece ultimately had the message of forgiveness as the old man that the boy grew into had “never seen a conflict solved with anger.”

Code: 168- Silence, My Mother Speaks (Roseville HS)

This preformance tells the story of a deaf woman, named Lily, whose mother dies giving birth to her and her normal/popular brother. Lily turns to alcohol to deal with the loss of her mother and all the while the sound of her dead mother’s beating heart speaks to her. One day Lily is driving in her car with her brother while intoxicated and crashes the car. She and her brother barely survive the crash but after that her mother’s heart speaks to her in silence instead of the sound of a beating, nervous heart. One notable thing about this preformance was that the girl could cry on que.

Code 216- The Last Words On Earth ~ (Albuquerque Academy)

Leo Moritz is and elderly man who lost his first love and family to the Holocaust. After finding that he has a son, Leo is forced to live without him. On his birthday, Leo sends his son a letter asking his son to meet him at Starbucks to celebrate with him. His son never comes. A fellow coffee drinker’s newspaper informs Leo that his son has died. Leo returns only to find that one of his life long friends has left him a note. It reads “I waited all day for you but you never came. But that’s okay, because I baked you a cake anyways. Happy Birthday my friend.” Dispite his son’s death, Leo is filled with hope as his life is still full of friends that love hime.

Code: 330- Looking a lot like Christmas

This is a bit of a dark comedy. Like Will and Grace… just without the Grace. Peter Engle-Hart is gay. As in G-A-Y. Peter takes us on a journey with him as he explains how he went from being a fairly family oriented person, to being forced to spend Chistmas alone. One day Peter finds a man that he really loves and decides to come clean with his family. He thinks that his family will accept him, only to find that his family love their convictions more then they love their son. Saddened by his family’s choice, Peter head back to the man he loves. But tragedy strikes Peter again when his longtime boyfriend decides to dump him three weeks after coming out to his family. Peter consoles himself by watching Christmas TV specials so that he doesn’t feel so alone.

Code:132 – A Hand To Hold

A special needs woman, Harriet, is left to care for herself and her baby sister when their mother abandons them. A few hours after their mother leaves them, Harriet accidently smothers her baby sister when trying to stop her from crying. All that Harriet wants is a second chance at taking care of her baby sister.

Kudos to the DI finalists!

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