Both Britton-Hecla and Langford Area Oral Interp teams have kept busy as their seasons are winding up.
Britton-Hecla High School hosted their local oral interpretation contest Monday night with Amanda Nordquist and Bridget Shileny serving as guest judges. Twenty-seven entries were performed, and the winners in each of seven categories will now move on to Regions in Aberdeen at the DEC Center on Tuesday. Qualifiers there will earn an entry to the State Oral Interpretation Festival in Sturgis Dec. 6 and 7.
Oliver Moeckly was the lone triple winner, moving on in oratory with “The Route to a Sustainable Future,” reader’s theatre with Trigger Mortis,” and duo, partnering up with Jerod Nebrida to perform “The Philadelphia.” Nebrida is also in the reader’s theatre, along with Braydon Casey, Paisley Bray, and Carter Chapin. Bray will also perform “To This Day” as the school’s poetry entry, and Chapin is moving on with his storytelling selection, “The Gift of the Magi.” The serious reading winner was Caitlyn Casey who did a cutting from “She Said Yes.” Lillian Boyko rounds out the Region team with her humorous selection “A Frenzy of Relaxation.”
Other performers in the humorous category were Brooklyn Hunt, Lily Mundt, Elizabeth Angstman, Wyatt Strong, Charles Schuller, and Braydon Casey. Aiden Strong, Emily Effling, and Savannah Angstman all did serious readings. Boyko also did a storytelling entry and was part of the second reader’s theatre with Avery Leonard and Mia Kilker. In oratory, Baylee Bender and Leonard were the other contestants. Poetry entries also included Amelia Ingvalson, Ruthie Moeckly, Addie Ahlgren, and Kilker. There were three other duets: Bray and Chapin, Strong and Ryer Larson, and Savannah Angstman and Caitlyn Casey.
Last week, two Langford Area oral interpers qualified to move on to the next level of competition following the district contest in Aberdeen. Eighth grader Josie VanderVorst qualified in Non-Original Oratory and Freshman Daniel Jesz in Humorous. Both interpers will move on the Regional contest in Webster on Nov. 18.
Several students were also selected as alternates for the regional contest: Maddie Knebel in Poetry, Morgan Ostlie in Serious, and Conner Glines, Kassen Keough, Joao Nunes, and Ryder Smith in Readers Theater. The Langford oral interp students also placed 2nd overall as a team coming up only four points behind the winner, Northwestern.
