Overall Rules
1) Dress professionally: No bright colors, usually pantsuits or black skirts/pants with neutral blouse or shirt and black blazer. flats high heels or dress shoes. no flash jewelry
2) Introductions: in all categories (with Impromptu and exempt as exceptions) you are required to memorize intro.
3) No props: you cannot have any props while preforming and cannot adjust clothing/glasses/hat to signify changing characters or that will be qualified as a prop. tears are also considered a prop so no crying(now that is stupid but its the rules).
4) All peices can not be longer than 10 minutes and 30 seconds or the person cannot be ranked 1 in the room.
5) Time Signals: each student is allowed to ask for time signals before starting performance. time signals such as 3down(three fingers raised when 3 minutes to 10) 2down (two fingers raised when 2 minutes to ten), 1down(one finger raised when 1 minute to 10), fist at 10, and c for grace period( judge holds hand in c shape and closes it slowly as time goes from 10 to 10:30).
6)Never say sorry!!!: when messing up during performance saying sorry only further delays your performance. though this is not an official rule, its something that the judge will put on your critiques that you will read after the competition is over, and it wil not be a positive thing.