I need to write a piece to present for theatre class next year. It can be about anything. Any good ideas?

Question

Well, not exactly theatre-- I'm in forensics (public speaking). Next year I'm competing in Original Oratory, which is where you write your own piece about anything you want, and then present it. It has to be 7-10 minutes long. Any good ideas???

Answer 1

Write about yourself, your family, your community.. Tell stories that are funny, sad, outrageous, uncommon, unusual.

Answer 2

The corns on the left hind leg of the common house fly.

The three pieces of the broken mirror.  (Wrote 600 words 40 years ago)

Peace.

Answer 3

Find something you're passionate about and write about that!!

It needs to be something interesting to you, first and foremost. If you can't be excited for 10 minutes about the material- your audience will definitely not be.

Answer 4

So is this related at all to theater? Or is it a general public speaking class? Or is it in any way tied to your studies in Forensics?

   I don't wish to insult you, but have you no ideas at all? 7 to 10 minutes of oration could be a rather long tale.

   Beyond that, what might be ANY general notion of usual themes presented? I suspect part of the concept involves an ability to deliver, publicly? It might also in some measure depend on the audience. EXAMPLE: One could ramble for 10 minutes on a subject, not at all relevant, or totally out of a context in something the speakers might be directed toward.

   Original, is no more difficult than taking segments from every day life and presenting them, and if it's only to judge delivery and stage presence, then anything could work, from Political diatribes, to comic monologues, to keeping the audience INVOLVED in something most timely and topical to them.

  It's a bit difficult for us, to offer anything YOU might best be comfortable with other than generalizing here.

10 minutes worth of

Clothes shopping with a mate

Gasoline prices, etc.

The general state of the economy

Best suggestions for controlling unruly children in a family

Driving lessons NOT in an on the road sense

Reciting a favorite recipe and the process

Dissection of the human body

etc.

etc.

etc.