I want to do a dramatic reading at a festival. Any suggestions?

If it would not be too corny there are some wonderful patriotic ones that might work. I remember one done at a Scout gathering by an older scouter....it was memorable. I am sure he had done it more than once, because it was all from memory. Cannot remember the details, but the impression still remains. Made me proud of my heritage in a time when such feelings are poo-poohed by much of the people in society. Wish I could remember what it was or who wrote it..maybe you could find something just as good on your own. Good luck with it !

You could try this, there's something about this poem that I've always liked:

Villanelle - Late Summer - Marilyn Hacker

I love you and it makes me rather dull

when everyone is voluble and gay.

The conversation hits a certain lull.

I moon, rattled as china in a bull

shop, wanting to go, wanting to stay.

I love you and it makes me rather dull.

You might think I had cotton in my skull.

And why is one in Staithes and not in Hay?

The conversation hits a certain lull.

You took a fretful, unoriginal

and unrelaxing friend on holiday.

I love you and it makes me rather dull.

A sheepish sky, with puffs of yellow wool,

watches the tide interrogate the day.

The conversation hits a certain lull.

And I am grimly silent, swollen full

of unsaid things. I certainly can't say

"I love you." And it makes me rather dull.

The conversation hits a certain lull.