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SHAKEY SLAM
Hosted by Maxwell Simon
28 JULY 2024
​Approx. 3 hours
Alex Theatre, St Kilda
Melbourne Shakespeare Company’s Shakey Slam is back by popular demand! The Shakey Slam is a monologue slam with a difference... all of the pieces will be from Shakespeare's plays or sonnets.
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Watch 25 of Melbourne's best performers battle it out to become Shakey Slam champions with 4 awards up for grabs for Drama, Comedy, Student/Graduate and Audiences Choice. Hosted by comedian Maxwell Simon (Mouin Rouge!, Muriel's Wedding) and a raffle where you can win some fabulous prizes, The Shakey Slam promises to be an exhilarating night that's fun for theatre lovers far and wide.
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Tickets for this event are pay-what-you-can with all money raised going towards Melbourne Shakespeare Company's production of Hamlet.
SHAKEY SLAM HISTORY
Since 2019 Melbourne Shakespeare Company have been putting on the worlds only Shakey Slam, a monologue slam dedicated to the works of William Shakespeare that raises money for our Shakespeare productions.
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How it works
Up to 30 actors perform Shakespeare monologues in one of three categories. Our esteemed panel of judges award points to each artist for a variety of different skills including comprehension of text, vocal dexterity and audience engagement, each artist is given a total score out of 120 and the artist with the most points in that category is crowned our champion in their category! The audience also vote on their favourite performance to win the coveted Audience Choice Award.