Speech & Drama Competitions

2024 Classes

We are pleased to announce that the Festival this year for Speech and Drama will be held on Sunday 24 November 2024 from 9am to 5pm at the Chickenshed Theatre, Southgate, North London.  See here for venue details.

The syllabus includes a list of classes there are for which age groups, and which poems are to be recited. Unfortunately, we omitted some classes when we first issued this.  Please now see version 2 of the syllabus – 2024 Speech and Drama Syllabus v2.

Dan Collins

Up until 2024 Dan was the Administrator of the Speech & Drama section of the North London Festival of Music, Speech & Drama.  Sadly he passed away in April 2024.  He put so much energy, time, enthusiasm, skill, joy and care into his organising the Speech & Drama classes over recent years. He will be greatly missed and the NLF Festival organisers give our condolences to Dan’s family and are very grateful for all he has done for young people in giving them the opportunities to develop their talents.

Applications

Applications (via the button below) are now open.  Deadline for applications 1 November 2024

The North London Festival is open to all.  We are a very friendly festival and want our performers to enjoy themselves.  If you have any questions about any of the classes please feel free to ask.

How to apply Apply online


To enter the festival you will need to have a Play and Perform account.  Registering is easy just click on Apply online.  If you are a teacher who would like to block book for a class send us an email and we can help you with the process. For each entry where age is required, it is the age on 1 September before the class so that all the entrants in a class are in the same school year or school years.

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