Here are 10 one act plays offered by various groups of Librivox readers. From Ancient India to the Far Future, from the palaces of royalty to the servants hall, from comedy to tragedy, from deeply philosophical to farcically entertaining. Enjoy!
This collection will be limited to 10 plays. Once we have 10 this will be closed to further additions.
Please see the list below in the thread for previous plays. It would be nice to have new ones to add to the collection.
Michele (wib66) will be BC for this set of one act plays. Please Note:Some plays are not PD for readers in Europe and/or Australia, and other countries which observe copyright of author's death +70 years. These are identified below and in the MW
How to volunteer to BC a play:
This is a great opportunity for anyone who's always wanted to BC a dramatic reading but isn't quite ready to do a full-length play. (Of course it's open to experienced BCs as well!) Please note that if you propose a play for inclusion in the collection, you are responsible either for editing, proof-listening and coordinating it yourself, or for finding other volunteers to fill these roles. Volunteers outside the USA: Be aware that some of the plays are still protected by copyright law some places, like Europe, where copyright is author's death plus 70 years, Australia (author's death plus 70 years for authors who died after 1955) or Canada (author's death plus 50 years).
Please look at the list of plays that have previously been submitted before choosing a play to co-ordinate. Please claim your play in the thread; You will be the BC for your play. I will put files in the MW and keep that up to date but you are expected to Proof Listen submitted parts and then edit the play together when all parts are submitted. This collection is capped at 12 plays. Each BC needs to provide the following information about each play:
* Title and author
* PD text link
* Link to author on Wikipedia, and death date, if known
* Link to title on Wikipedia
* Number of roles (including narrator) this project will have
* Original publication date
* The list of characters in your plays so when we have a MW I can set up your sections properly!
If you would like to claim a role yourself please do so. Below are some resources you can use to find a play, but don't feel limited to these. Also, remember to check what has already been recorded in the previous One-Act Play Collections (see next post in this thread)
Project Gutenberg also has a list of many authors who have written one-act plays: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/One_Act_Plays_(Bookshelf)
Readers: to find a section to record, simply look at point 5. below at the sections. All the ones without names beside them are “up for grabs.” Click "Post reply" at the top left of the screen and tell us which section you’d like to read (include the section number from the left-most column in the reader list, please). Read points 6. to 8. below for what to do before, during and after your recording.
Prospective Prooflisteners: Please read the Listeners Wanted FAQ before listening! Level of prooflistening requested: standard
Please don't download or listen to files belonging to projects in process (unless you are the BC or PL). Our servers are not set up to handle the greater volume of traffic. Please wait until the project has been completed. Thanks!
Magic Window:
BC Admin
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This paragraph is temporary and will be replaced by the MC with the list of sections and reader (Magic Window) once this project is in the admin system.
Project Code: kaWeXAVs
Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): :
Link to title on Wikipedia (if available):
Number of sections (files) this project will have: 40
Does the project have an introduction or preface [y/n]: No
Original publication date (if known):
If you are a new volunteer, how would you like your name (or pseudonym) credited in the catalog? Do you have a URL you would like associated with your name?:
Set your recording software to:
Channels: 1 (Mono)
Bit Rate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Submit one file per act.
Make sure you add this to the beginning of your recording: [Role], read by [your name].
Narrators
Please include the following at the beginning of the file
[/i] [Play Name] , by [Play Author]. This is a Librivox recording. All Librivox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit Librivox dot org.
At the end:
End of [name of play].
Please remember to check this thread frequently for updates!
DURING recording: No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording! Make sure you add this to the beginning of your recording:
There should be ~5 seconds silence at the end of the recording.
Please remember to check this thread frequently for updates!
AFTER recording Need noise-cleaning?
Listen to your file through headphones. If you can hear some constant background noise (hiss/buzz), you may want to clean it up a bit. The latest version of Audacity is recommended for noise-cleaning. See this LibriVox wiki page for a complete guide. Save files as
128 kbps MP3 For individual roles, use file name:
titleinoneword_charactername_aurthorsurname.mp3 (all lower-case)
e.g. punchandgo_electrics_galsworthy.mp3
For final edited plays, use file name
oneactplays011_titleinoneword_authorsurname_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case).
e.g. oneactplays011_punchandgo_galsworthy_128kb
Transfer of files (completed recordings) Please always post in this forum thread when you've sent a file. Also, post the length of the recording (file duration: mm:ss) together with the link.
Last edited by wib66 on April 6th, 2018, 2:04 pm, edited 6 times in total.
Michele When you're having what you feel like is a 'bad day' and then someone comes along out of nowhere and extends to you the simplest of kind gestures, you feel it so deeply within your heart.” ―Miya Yamanouchi
ToddHW wrote: ↑February 13th, 2018, 1:51 pm
I’ll be glad to MC and to set this up when I get back to my computer tomorrow (Wednesday).
Thanks, Todd
Todd that would be great I always enjoy working with you.
Thank you
Michele When you're having what you feel like is a 'bad day' and then someone comes along out of nowhere and extends to you the simplest of kind gestures, you feel it so deeply within your heart.” ―Miya Yamanouchi
One Act Play Collection 001 Author The First and the Last- John Galsworthy A Marriage has been Arranged- Alfred Sutro The Swan Song- Anton Chekhov Trifles- Susan Glaspell War Brides- Marion Craig Wentworth Wurzel Flummery- A.A. Milne
One Act Play Collection 002 Author Before Breakfast- Eugene O'Neill The Buller Podington Compact- Frank Richard Stockton The Dark Lady of the Sonnets- George Bernard Shaw The First and the Last- John Galsworthy How he Lied to her Husband- George Bernard Shaw The Outside- Susan Glaspell The Parlor Car- William D Howells Riders to the Sea- John Millington Synge
One Act Play Collection 003 Author Eugenically Speaking- Edward Goodman The Pot Boiler- Alice Gerstenberg A Good Woman- Arnold Bennet The Sun- John Galsworthy The Bear- Anton Chekov The Tenor- Frank Wedekind The Pretentious Young Ladies- Moliere Lonesome Like- Harolod Brighouse Enter the Hero- Theresa Helburn A Proposal Under Difficulties- John Kendrick Bangs
One Act Play Collection 004 Author The Bicyclers- John Kendrick Bangs The Dark Lady of Sonnets- George Bernard Shaw Eolaus, A Dramatic Poem- James Allen Fame and the Poet- Lord Dunsany Is She His Wife- Charles Dickens King Lear's Wife- Gordon bottomley The Land of Heart's Desire- William butler Yeats Mr Nightingale's Diary- Charles Dickens The Stronger- August Strindberg Trifles- Susan Glaspell War Brides- Marion Craig Wentworth Woman's Honor- Susan Glaspell
One Act Play Collection 005 Author Abstraction- Basil Hall Chamberlain The Constant Lover- St John Hankin The Day of the Boomer Dukes- Frederik Pohl Forgotten Souls- David Pinski Overtones- Alice Gerstenberg Supressed Desires- Susan Glaspell and George Cram Tides- George Middleton The Twelve Pound Look- J.M. Barrie When Shades Assemble- Marjory Benton Cooke Zenobia- Hereward Carrington
One Act Play Collection 006 Author Madame Butterfly- David Belasco The Hunting of the Snark- Lewis Carroll Something to Vote For- Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Sightless- Maurice Maeterlinck Punch and Go- John Galsworthy The Falcon- Alfred Lord Tennyson Night At The Inn- Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany A Midsummer Dance Dream- Anna Bird Stewart Zenobia- Hereward Carrington A Question of Sex- Arnold Bennett
One Act Play Collection 007 Author The Stepmother- Arnold Bennett The Woman Tamer Louis Esson Dead Timber - Louis Esson The Wedding - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov The Anniversary - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Grotesques- Cloyd Head A Tragedian in Spite of Himself - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov The Slave With Two Faces - Mary Carolyn Davies The Masque of the Two Strangers - Lady Alix Egerton Fourteen - Alice Gerstenberg Moonshine - Arthur Hopkins
One Act Play Collection 008 Author The Hour Glass - WB Yeats Human Nature - Floyd Dell At a Garden Party- F Anstey Not Smart - Wilbur Daniel Steele Cinderella - Florence Bell The Sacred Place - Louis Esson The Second Story Man - Upton Sinclair Daniel and the Devil - Eugene Field The Pierrot of the Minute - Ernest Dowson The Exchange - Althea Thurston
One Act Play Collection 009 Author Phipps - Stanley Houghton Fancy Free - Stanley Houghton Attuned- Alice Gerstenberg Where But in America - Oscar M Wolff The Good Samaritan - Rita Benton In 1999 - William C Demille The Story of Rachel - Lady Florence Bell The Dance of Death - Gustave Flaubert Answering the Phone - Elizabeth Guptill A Dramatic Evening - John Kendrick Bangs The Fatal Message - John Kendrick Bangs
One Act Play Collection 010 Author Mosada - William Butler The Belles of Canterbury - Anna Bird Stewart The People- Susan Glaspell Close the Book - Susan Glaspell Cathleen Ni Houlihan - WB Yeats and Lady Gregory The Proving of Abraham - Rita Benton Household Gods - Aleister Crowley Box and Cox - Maddison Morton What Christmas did for Jerusha Grumble - John D Macdonald The Fourth Act - Basil MacDonald Hastings
Michele When you're having what you feel like is a 'bad day' and then someone comes along out of nowhere and extends to you the simplest of kind gestures, you feel it so deeply within your heart.” ―Miya Yamanouchi
Thank you this is now set up in the MW please ensure you check for claims and PL sections as they come in thanks
Michele When you're having what you feel like is a 'bad day' and then someone comes along out of nowhere and extends to you the simplest of kind gestures, you feel it so deeply within your heart.” ―Miya Yamanouchi
alanmapstone wrote: ↑February 18th, 2018, 1:49 am
May read Vasanta?
Interesting to do a work by Tagore.
thank you I will sign you up
Michele When you're having what you feel like is a 'bad day' and then someone comes along out of nowhere and extends to you the simplest of kind gestures, you feel it so deeply within your heart.” ―Miya Yamanouchi
I am going to prep two one act plays. By Moliere and Pinero to complement their full length plays I have been running. I'll have details after next weekend.
Hello! Here is one more play. I'll appreciate if someone is able to find the date of the author's death to be sure I can BC the play. I couldn't find it.
Title: The Vampire Cat by Gerard Van Etten
Text: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40120
Author:
Gerard van Etten
1941
Wiki: -
Number of roles: 7
Publication date: 1918
Narrator
Prince Hizen
Buzen
Ruiten
Ito Soda
Kashiku
O Toyo
ToddHW wrote: ↑March 4th, 2018, 5:42 pm
I am going to prep two one act plays. By Moliere and Pinero to complement their full length plays I have been running. I'll have details after next weekend.
Thanks, Todd
that's great thanks Todd
Michele When you're having what you feel like is a 'bad day' and then someone comes along out of nowhere and extends to you the simplest of kind gestures, you feel it so deeply within your heart.” ―Miya Yamanouchi
ToddHW wrote: ↑March 18th, 2018, 5:44 am
I added my two plays to the first post and the MW, and also put the claims above into the MW.
I can't miss out on Pinero and Molière So, I'll claim Andrée the maid, and The Mistress, please. Although I am a bit swamped at the moment, so I will not hand them in as fast as usual.
Oh I can also PL those two again, if you wish, Todd.