Group Speech Topics: 45 Topics for Group Speech or Duo Interp

Group speech topics list with 45 ideas for a group or duo interp public speaking speech topics at forensic or other special events.



In general, there are four types of college or university group interpretation speeches: group interpretation, duo interp, humorous and dramatic interpretation. There a some other mix forms, but these are the major group speech topic categories. Each with its own special public speaking rules and requirements, depending on the assignment or event. There is one simple golden rule: it's important to select a duo piece or group speech topics that every group or duo member like!

My definition of Duo Interp or Group Interp: Two people or a group of five to seven perform an excerpt from a play, novel, poems, short story or other literary script. One does the monologue lines and the other group members perform the characters.

Short Stories For Group Speech Topics

These short stories are good group speech topics:

A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane
A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
A Little Cloud by James Joyce
A Martian Odyssey by Stanley G. Weinbaum
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Brer Rabbit and the Tar-Baby by Joel Chandler Harris
How the Leopard Got His Spots by Rudyard Kipling
In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
My Kinsman Major Molineux by Nathaniel Hawthorne
On The Gulls' Road by Willa Cather
Rain by W. Somerset Maughan
Regret by Kate Chopin
Resumed Identity by Ambrose Bierce
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
Scarlet Stockings by Louisa May Alcott
Split Cherry Tree by Jess Stuart
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane
The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
The Cask of Almontilado by Edgar Allan Poe
The Dancing Partner by Jerome K. Jerome
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
The Doctor's Son by John O'Hara
The Final Problem by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
The Idiots by Joseph Conrad
The Imp of The Perverse by Edgar Allan Poe
The Killers by Ernest Hemingway
The Last Lesson by Alphonse Daudet
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
The Minister´s Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs
The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
The Private History of a Campaign That Falied by Mark Twain
The Puloined Letter by Edgar Allen Poe
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber
The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
The Vampyre by John Polidori
To build a fire by Jack London

With a little fantasy college students can transform these short stories into good group speech topics. The challenge is to present a literary script in such a way that the audience imagines action being described rather than witnessing it being performed. Two ways to perform a speech topic group:

• Make hand gestures, pantomime movements or even dance.
• Change the manner of speaking and tone of voices.