[COMPLETE]PLAY: Exiles by James Joyce - ans

[gloriana]

Exiles by James Joyce (1882 - 1941).

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Exiles is a play by James Joyce, who is principally remembered for his novels. It was rejected by W. B. Yeats for production by the Abbey Theatre. Its first major London performance was in 1970, when Harold Pinter directed it at the Mermaid Theatre. The basic premise of Exiles involves a love triangle between Richard Rowan (a Dublin writer recently returned from exile in Rome), Bertha (his common law wife) and his old friend Robert Hand (a journalist). (There are obvious parallels to be drawn with Joyce's own life – Joyce and Nora Barnacle lived, unmarried, in Trieste, during the years the fictional Rowans were living in Rome, while Robert Hand is roughly the same age of Joyce's friends Oliver St. John Gogarty and Vincent Cosgrave, and shares some characteristics with them both.) This arrangement is slightly complicated by a second love triangle, involving Rowan, Hand, and Hand's cousin Beatrice Justice. ( Wikipedia)

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[gloriana]

Please note: although the characters are Irish and the play is set in Ireland, no accent work is required.

I would welcome a DPL for either the individual roles, the finished files, or both.

[annise]

All done - you can add sectons yourself even without the magic wand

Anne

[gloriana]

Thank you, Anne - I didn't know I could do that! Very cool! And thanks for MCing.

I will be editing the finished play, just FYI.

[silverquill]

Since I don't have a young voice for Archie, I'd be glad to read narrator for this. But, I think it might be wise to decide what stage directions to include. I think ones that are primarily guides to the actors such as "calmly" "in the same tone" "excitedly" etc. are just distracting to the listener and add nothing of value to the recording. Those that describe a scene or setting, or those indicating or convey other information not apparent to the listener are important. I would read according to your wishes, of course, so this is just my personal suggestion.

[gloriana]

Hi Larry - I would love to have you read the stage directions! I'm something of a minimalist where they are concerned, so as you say, I'd prefer to not have you read the ones that describe how a character says a line. So, for example, on pp. 2-3 of the script, you could omit "Brigid laughs heartily" and "Brigid - sympathetically" because this is something the reader can provide. Even "she coughs somewhat nervously" could be left out, since again, the reader should provide this. But all the other directions describe the characters, or their actions, and should be left in. If you're ever in doubt, however, please feel free to ask me.

Thanks again - I really appreciate it! The narrator is so important when there are lots of stage directions in plays like these.

[Tortilla]

I'll take the fisherwoman!

[gloriana]

I'll take the fisherwoman!

Thanks, Tortilla - it's a taxing role.

[Darvinia]

Elderly female servant. I can do that! Brigid please.

[gloriana]

Elderly female servant. I can do that! Brigid please.

Thank you so much, Bev!

[beeber]

Pronunciation note:

I notice that Robert and Bertha (and maybe others) have to say the Irish place name "Youghal." Apparently it is pronounced "Yawl."

[silverquill]

Great! I think we are on the same page on this in regard to narration, Elizabeth. If something is borderline, I may record it because it is easier not to use something that is recorded than it is to go back and record something that's missed. I'll certainly do my best.

[Darvinia]

I have just finished reading the play. I noticed a couple of errors. Forgive me if you know this already.

At the bottom of page 24 a line attributed to Bertha should be Robert.

[Continuing.] But she comes back here to my mother, you see. The piano influence is from our side of the house.

In the second edition at archive.org here:
https://archive.org/details/playinthreexiles00joycrich
it has been correctly attributed to Robert.

Pages 49 and 50 are missing. They are in the second edition scan.

Bruce,

Thanks for the pronunciation of Youghal. Brigid says it too and I knew I'd have to look it up.

[gloriana]

Pronunciation note:

I notice that Robert and Bertha (and maybe others) have to say the Irish place name "Youghal." Apparently it is pronounced "Yawl."

Thanks, Bruce - I'll put this in the first post.

Larry, you've got it exactly! Thank you.

And Bev, no I didn't see that. There is another Archive version that is complete, so I've changed the text link in the first post as well. Thanks for catching that!

[Elizabby]

I am interested, but I don't speak Italian at all. How much Italian are we talking about for Archie?