
We are proud to introduce our first Virtual Performing Arts Competition with sections in speech and drama, vocal and dance.
Entries must be submitted by video and will be watched and assessed by four professional adjudicators ahead of a LIVE Zoom bursary final on August 29, 2020.
Please email for an entry or teachers pack now on centrestagevirtual@gmail.com. Each entry costs £3 and the deadline for entries is Saturday, August 15 at 9pm.
There are more than 25 sections and a £100 cash prize for the winner. Each entry will receive a report and certificates with trophies for the highest marks and the adjudicator’s choice.
There is no upper age limit. Age groups are:
Solos
- Junior 1 – Four to six years
- Junior 2 – Seven to nine years
- Inter 1 – 10 to 12 years
- Inter 2 – 13 to 14 years
- Senior – 15 to 18 years
- Open – 18+ years
Duets ( for vocal and dance classes – must be from the same household or recorded socially distant)
- Junior – Four to nine years
- Inter – 10 to 14 years
- Senior – 15+ years
Speech and drama categories
Six age categories are available from Junior to Open, which has NO upper age limit. Junior entrants can read from paper or books.
The categories are:
Speech solo
- Extract from any David Walliams book
- Extract from any Harry Potter book
- Contemporary monologue (post-1950)
- Shakespeare monologue
- Screen acting
- Contemporary comedy monologue
- Classical comedy monologue (pre-1900)
- Own humorous verse
Speech and drama adjudicator
Jack Broughton BA (Hons, PGCE Theatre, DipLCM
Jack is a teacher of acting at a specialist performing arts school in the Midlands. He trained at the University of Winchester and has a BA (Hons) in Musical Theatre.
Jack has been performing since an early age and enjoys both musical theatre and straight acting. As well as training in musical theatre and acting, Jack has also worked closely with different disciplines in performing arts such as physical theatre, puppetry & object manipulation, immersive theatre and acting through song.
Over 10 years, Jack and has appeared in shows such as Half a Sixpence, Guys and Dolls, Honk and many more.
Jack was the first person in the UK to originate the role of The Prime Minister in the amateur version of Made in Dagenham. He recently played the role of gangster boss Curtis in Sister Act and the Rhino in Just So.
Jack’s directing credits include Anything Goes, Jungle Book, Aristocats and The Gruffalo. He has worked on many comedy and straight plays such as John Godber’s Bouncers & Shakers and also played the part of Salty in Teechers and Eddie in Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers.
Vocal categories
Six age categories are available from Junior to Open, which has NO upper age limit. Duets must be from the same household or recorded socially distant.
The categories are:
- Own choice vocal
- Musical theatre performance (pre-1960)
- Musical theatre performance (post-1960)
- CCM (pop music) solo
- Unaccompanied vocal
- Musical theatre performance duet
Vocal adjudicator
Anne Leatherland – Specialist Vocal Trainer, BSc PGCE ALCM LGSM

Dance categories
Six age categories are available from Junior to Open, which has NO upper age limit. Duets must be from the same household or recorded socially distant.
The categories are:
- Lyrical
- Contemporary
- Classical ballet
- Modern
- Tap
- Own choreography
- Musical theatre song with dance
- Musical theatre, dance only
- Classical duet
- Cabaret duet (with or without song)
Dance adjudicator
Jill Chapman RAD, Dance Coach and Choreographer

