Wednesday 07 June, 2017
Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Competition winners
Sunt quia et atque vero enim.

At the start of June, the Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Competition winners were announced at an awards ceremony in Wellington. Year 13 student Wittawala Teekathananont gained a silver medal for her poster design which will now be displayed at The Globe, London in July and August of this year. Anna Casey won gold for the junior section of the essay competition and Elena Wood won silver. Great results and congratulations! Year 13 student Piper Whitehead won bronze in the senior writing competition. Piper also represented the School at the national finals in Wellington. These results in a national competition are quite outstanding and Diocesan was very highly represented in the results announced over the weekend. Congratulations also to their coach and mentor, our Head of Drama Department, Ms Sarah Spicer.

Anna Casey’s Gold-winning essay for SGCNZ

The phone rang – a voice. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” it said.

“Excuse me!?” I replied

“Thou art more lovely and more temperate:”

“Can you see me?”

“If they do see thee they will murder thee.”

“Who… What? Wait stop. My grandma used to read me those lines… “Shall I compare thee”…”

“If thou art searching for a name, thou can but ask for a name.”

“Then what is your name?”

“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

“Really? You sound like… Shakespeare?”

“Well done. I must ask thou a question.”

“And what exactly is that question?”

“To be or not to be – that is the question”

“Uh, to be?”

“Wrong. To be in love shall cause thou troubles that thou does not desire. As my fair friend once said: “The course of true love never did run smooth””

“That is true but why should I avoid love even though it causes trouble? And why love?”

“Ah. Maybe thou art more witty than thou hath shown to be. I have another question for thou and then you must let me tell thou my text. Does thou know my literature?”

“Why yes you mean your plays? Of course! Macbeth, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream – that one is my favourite, The Tempest, Henry the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth, Hamlet— ”

“Wilst thou stop talking?”

“Uh, yes…”

A silence lingered in the air.

“Uh well now, sir, what is your text, the um, text you spoke of before?”

“The text is “That you have but slumbered here while these visions did appear.””

“Is that all? But you’re saying that this is some sort of odd dream? It can’t be I’m awake and —”

“Farewell good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!”

Beeep Beeep.

I put down the phone. On its spine were the engravings ‘ 2, 2, 33 . 23, 04 ’. “Say as you think, and speak it from your souls”

“Ah… Good old Shakespeare” I mumbled.

“That you have but slumbered here / While these visions did appear.” A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Farewell good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!” Henry V

“Now, sir, what is your text?” Twelfth Night

“The course of true love never did run smooth” A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“To be or not to be – that is the question” Hamlet

“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Romeo and Juliet

“If they do see thee they will murder thee.” Romeo and Juliet

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” Sonnet 18

“Thou art more lovely and more temperate:” Sonnet 18

“Say as you think, and speak it from your souls” Henry VI

2,2, 33 is the line spoken by Juliet in Romeo and Juliet from Act 2, Scene 2, line 33 – “O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?”

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