I need to find a Prose Piece that is 10 minutes long for Advanced Theatre Class?

Question

I've looked everywhere for a good piece but i can't find one. help!

Answer 1

If this is just oral interpretation you could chose any book that you like.... something with a lot of atmosphere and well written.

The short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe, and Herman Melville have some gems.... Bartleby the Scrivner etc...
If you like to do multiple voices, characters look at some short plays. Good drama anthology should help. Check the library.

Answer 2

Shakespeare or Poe would be good sources for a Prose Piece. Your interpretation can either make it too long, too short, or just fith the time requirements. Personally, I prefer Edgar Allan Poe.

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In all but four of Shakespeare's plays (Henry VI, Parts 1 and 3: King John; Richard II) prose is used as an alternative and contrasting medium to verse. The proportion of prose to verse can range from less than one-tenth (Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Henry VIII) to nine-tenths (The Merry Wives of Windsor), but in every instance its use is carefully controlled for artistic effect. As for such plays as Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends...

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Eureka - A Prose Poem
By: Edgar Allan Poe
(1848)

WITH VERY PROFOUND RESPECT,
THIS WORK IS DEDICATED
TO
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT

PREFACE
To the few who love me and whom I love -- to those who feel rather than to those who think -- to the dreamers and those who put faith in dreams as in the only realities -- I offer this Book of Truths, not in its character of Truth-Teller, but for the Beauty that abounds in its Truth; constituting it true. To these I present the composition as an Art-Product alone:- let us say as a Romance; or, if I be not urging too lofty a claim, as a Poem.

What I here propound is true:- * therefore it cannot die:- or if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will "rise again to the Life Everlasting."

Nevertheless it is as a Poem only that I wish this work to be judged after I am dead.

E. A. P.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/poe/eureka.html