COMPLETE[Play]The Hunchback by Knowles - thw

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And here are Helen's last two acts:

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/hunchback_helen_4.mp3
https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/hunchback_helen_5.mp3

So glad I had the chance to read this role! Figuring out what's an aside is a bit tricky, though. :)

Thanks,
Wendy
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JoannaHoyt wrote: June 14th, 2021, 10:59 am Here are the stage directions for the first three acts. Will edit and upload the last two tonight or tomorrow.


Act 1, 3:39
https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/hunchback_stagedirections_1.mp3

Act 2, 2:27
https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/hunchback_stagedirections_2.mp3

Act 3, 3:04
https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/hunchback_stagedirections_3.mp3
Hooray! Thanks for getting these in so quickly! I'm looking forward to being able to start editing some scenes together soon! :D
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WendyKatzHiller wrote: June 14th, 2021, 11:50 am And here are Helen's last two acts:

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/hunchback_helen_4.mp3
https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/hunchback_helen_5.mp3

So glad I had the chance to read this role! Figuring out what's an aside is a bit tricky, though. :)

Thanks,
Wendy
I had some trouble with that too! There were several lines that I had to re-record because I only figured out after I had spoken them that they were thoughts not dialogue.
This play was a big change in that way from "You Never Can Tell" by George Bernard Shaw. Shaw - an Edwardian - practically dictates line readings to you in the stage directions for each piece of dialogue.

I also continually got tripped up by the Victorian faux-Shakespearean double negatives -- "Would not he not have known?" and that sort of thing. I don't think anyone ever actually talked like that in the history of ever.

As melodramas go, though, Helen and Julia are very nicely written parts for women. They have a lot of spunk! I'm looking forward to hearing how this play comes together!
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Here's act 4. I realized while editing this that I have probably been doing something wrong in the earlier acts. When reading cues such as "Wal. [Entering]" I have simply read "Walter, Entering." But in other parts of the stage directions where abbreviations are not used he is always called Master Walter, not just Walter. So I added "Master" to the Walter cue in this act. Let me know if I should go back and do that in the first 3 acts as well. Sorry I didn't think to ask before. I can make the fixes quickly, and I'll edit and upload act 5 as soon as I know how I should be doing this.

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/hunchback_stagedirections_4.mp3
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JoannaHoyt wrote: June 14th, 2021, 3:21 pm Here's act 4. I realized while editing this that I have probably been doing something wrong in the earlier acts. When reading cues such as "Wal. [Entering]" I have simply read "Walter, Entering." But in other parts of the stage directions where abbreviations are not used he is always called Master Walter, not just Walter. So I added "Master" to the Walter cue in this act. Let me know if I should go back and do that in the first 3 acts as well. Sorry I didn't think to ask before. I can make the fixes quickly, and I'll edit and upload act 5 as soon as I know how I should be doing this.

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/hunchback_stagedirections_4.mp3
If it wouldn't be too much trouble, I think I would prefer to have him identified as "Master Walter." Thanks for catching this!
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ktaylor07 wrote: June 14th, 2021, 5:20 pm
JoannaHoyt wrote: June 14th, 2021, 3:21 pm Here's act 4. I realized while editing this that I have probably been doing something wrong in the earlier acts. When reading cues such as "Wal. [Entering]" I have simply read "Walter, Entering." But in other parts of the stage directions where abbreviations are not used he is always called Master Walter, not just Walter. So I added "Master" to the Walter cue in this act. Let me know if I should go back and do that in the first 3 acts as well. Sorry I didn't think to ask before. I can make the fixes quickly, and I'll edit and upload act 5 as soon as I know how I should be doing this.

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/hunchback_stagedirections_4.mp3
If it wouldn't be too much trouble, I think I would prefer to have him identified as "Master Walter." Thanks for catching this!
Not too much trouble at all. Will reupload corrected files tomorrow. Sorry I missed that at first.
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Alan
the sixth age shifts into the slippered pantaloon with spectacles on nose
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alanmapstone wrote: June 15th, 2021, 3:30 am Earl of Rochdale act 3

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/hunchback_earlofrochdale_3.mp3
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Act 2 stage directions didn't require correction. Acts 1 and 3 correctly uploaded; acts 1-4 are now ready for PL. Thanks for your patience.
https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/hunchback_stagedirections_1.mp3
https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/hunchback_stagedirections_3.mp3
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JoannaHoyt wrote: June 15th, 2021, 3:56 am Act 2 stage directions didn't require correction. Acts 1 and 3 correctly uploaded; acts 1-4 are now ready for PL. Thanks for your patience.
https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/hunchback_stagedirections_1.mp3
https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/hunchback_stagedirections_3.mp3
Thanks so much for getting these in so quickly!
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JoannaHoyt wrote: June 16th, 2021, 2:41 am Here's act 5 of the stage directions.
https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/hunchback_stagedirections_5.mp3
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Hi Wendy,
Helen, Act 1, is PL Okay.

Thanks,
Lora
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Post by ADKreader1122 »

Thanks, Greg--Simpson, Act 1, is PL Okay.

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Hi Joanna,
Stage directions, Act 1, are PL Okay.

Thank you,
Lora
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