OPEN[PLAY]Don Quixote Part 1 by Thomas D'Urfey - thw

[ToddHW]

I really do leave characterization up to readers, and and always delighted with what I receive.

However, I will note that "being mad" does not have to be played as raving frothing shouty mad. A calm and collected attitude - but very badly mistaken about what is and isn't real - may work fine if the text as written supports that. (I used that approach for The Phantom of the Opera book a while back - at least until the final chapters.)

Quixote can be considered mad - or perhaps misguided, but his description only says that he is "a frantick Gentleman". If D'Urfey's text allows, I may make him a bit shouty - if the spirit moves me that way when the autumnal leaf blowers depart our neighborhood and I can finally record him.

I give you permission to download an MW file from other characters in the same scenes as Cardensio if you want to hear the voices you will be acting with. Maybe that will inspire; I prefer to do my readings cold.

Thanks, Todd

[EltonTheSnowman]

Dorothea ready for PL:

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comicalhistorypart1_dorothea_2.mp3
(2:00)

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comicalhistorypart1_dorothea_3.mp3
(8:14)

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comicalhistorypart1_dorothea_4.mp3
(4:15)

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comicalhistorypart1_dorothea_5.mp3
(1:31)

[ToddHW]

Thank you.

Todd

[jennlea]

May I claim Lucinda?

[ToddHW]

Thank you.

Todd

[redrun]

Dorothea ready for PL:

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comicalhistorypart1_dorothea_2.mp3
(2:00)

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comicalhistorypart1_dorothea_3.mp3
(8:14)

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comicalhistorypart1_dorothea_4.mp3
(4:15)

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comicalhistorypart1_dorothea_5.mp3
(1:31)

Thanks Matea! Well characterized, all through the broad emotional arc that this character takes! I really can't tell whether she's sincere in her lack of jealousy, of if this is just a manipulation tactic... which makes it all the more interesting! I also like your clear pronunciation, which can be doubly helpful when the language of the play is so different from the everyday.

Yours is a long reading, so it will feel like I have a lot of notes for you. More than half are optional, and I mention them either to save Todd time in editing, or in case you'd like to be as overly picky as me, for the final production. Plosives, in particular, I mention if they might distract from your performance, though that's very subjective.

In case you hadn't seen this on page 2, I've also got the benefit of reading from a cleaner scan of the same document, which you can find here:
https://books.google.com/books?id=ICQJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA78&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false

I present my notes back-to-front, so they're easier to edit without altering time-stamps of subsequent notes.

Act 2 - Both notes are on page 30:
@0:56, OPTIONAL, audio sounds like it might be a little damaged from clipping, from "thou art now", to "and by a man betrayed"
@0:50, in the line "And in -soft- Rapture," I hear "loft"

Act 3
@8:01, OPTIONAL, page 47, plosive in "Uncle -Perez-"
@7:44, OPTIONAL, page 46, plosive in "killing"
@5:56, page 45, "transporting -Passion-", I hear "ration"
@5:12, page 45, "you are -wise- and fair", I hear "wife"
@3:52, OPTIONAL, page 44, moderate plosive in "thro' Groves and -Plains-"
@1:23, OPTIONAL, page 39, in "the Protestations came so fast and thick, -so- fierce withal," I hear "thick, -to- fierce"
@1:19, OPTIONAL, page 39 moderate plosive in "protestations"
@0:07, page 39, slight plosives in "poor", "prattling", and "please"
OPTIONAL, Additional voice credit not needed

Act 4
@3:57, OPTIONAL, page 74/75, plosive in "to -whom- I else"
@2:41, page 71, "Kingdom; which -Knight- must be your self", I hear "King"
@2:09, OPTIONAL, page 71, moderate plosive in "Pandafilando"
@1:49, page 71, "I'm call'd, the -Princess- Micomicona, so -nam'd-", I hear "so -famed-", and with a slight plosive on "Princess"
@1:39 or 1:41, OPTIONAL, page 71, leave a pause for stage direction of "To Perez aside", which probably splits your line in one of these places, though it's up to you which.
@1:15, page 71, "making my natives all of -sable- Hue", and "my kind Father, -wise- Finacrio", I hear "fable" and "wife"
@0:49, OPTIONAL, page 70, moderate plosive in "one -piece- with the Earth"
@0:09, OPTIONAL, page 70, slight plosives in "repented" and "poor"
OPTIONAL, Additional voice credit not needed

Act 5
page 91, at end, missing line starting with "And let each kind, too"
page 91, near top, missing line starting with "Not unless he had some"
@1:25, OPTIONAL, minor plosive in "punish'd"
@0:36, OPTIONAL, page 84, moderate plosive at beginning of "Hold", can just be snipped off in editing
@0:25, page 81, missing line starting with "And to confound Sancho the more,"
OPTIONAL, Additional voice credit not needed

[EltonTheSnowman]

Thanks Matea! Well characterized, all through the broad emotional arc that this character takes! I really can't tell whether she's sincere in her lack of jealousy, of if this is just a manipulation tactic... which makes it all the more interesting! I also like your clear pronunciation, which can be doubly helpful when the language of the play is so different from the everyday.

Yours is a long reading, so it will feel like I have a lot of notes for you. More than half are optional, and I mention them either to save Todd time in editing, or in case you'd like to be as overly picky as me, for the final production. Plosives, in particular, I mention if they might distract from your performance, though that's very subjective.

In case you hadn't seen this on page 2, I've also got the benefit of reading from a cleaner scan of the same document, which you can find here:
https://books.google.com/books?id=ICQJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA78&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false

I present my notes back-to-front, so they're easier to edit without altering time-stamps of subsequent notes.

Act 2 - Both notes are on page 30:
@0:56, OPTIONAL, audio sounds like it might be a little damaged from clipping, from "thou art now", to "and by a man betrayed"
@0:50, in the line "And in -soft- Rapture," I hear "loft"

Act 3
@8:01, OPTIONAL, page 47, plosive in "Uncle -Perez-"
@7:44, OPTIONAL, page 46, plosive in "killing"
@5:56, page 45, "transporting -Passion-", I hear "ration"
@5:12, page 45, "you are -wise- and fair", I hear "wife"
@3:52, OPTIONAL, page 44, moderate plosive in "thro' Groves and -Plains-"
@1:23, OPTIONAL, page 39, in "the Protestations came so fast and thick, -so- fierce withal," I hear "thick, -to- fierce"
@1:19, OPTIONAL, page 39 moderate plosive in "protestations"
@0:07, page 39, slight plosives in "poor", "prattling", and "please"
OPTIONAL, Additional voice credit not needed

Act 4
@3:57, OPTIONAL, page 74/75, plosive in "to -whom- I else"
@2:41, page 71, "Kingdom; which -Knight- must be your self", I hear "King"
@2:09, OPTIONAL, page 71, moderate plosive in "Pandafilando"
@1:49, page 71, "I'm call'd, the -Princess- Micomicona, so -nam'd-", I hear "so -famed-", and with a slight plosive on "Princess"
@1:39 or 1:41, OPTIONAL, page 71, leave a pause for stage direction of "To Perez aside", which probably splits your line in one of these places, though it's up to you which.
@1:15, page 71, "making my natives all of -sable- Hue", and "my kind Father, -wise- Finacrio", I hear "fable" and "wife"
@0:49, OPTIONAL, page 70, moderate plosive in "one -piece- with the Earth"
@0:09, OPTIONAL, page 70, slight plosives in "repented" and "poor"
OPTIONAL, Additional voice credit not needed

Act 5
page 91, at end, missing line starting with "And let each kind, too"
page 91, near top, missing line starting with "Not unless he had some"
@1:25, OPTIONAL, minor plosive in "punish'd"
@0:36, OPTIONAL, page 84, moderate plosive at beginning of "Hold", can just be snipped off in editing
@0:25, page 81, missing line starting with "And to confound Sancho the more,"
OPTIONAL, Additional voice credit not needed

Here are the edited files for Dorothea:

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comicalhistorypart1_dorothea_2.mp3
(2:01)

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comicalhistorypart1_dorothea_3.mp3
(8:09)

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comicalhistorypart1_dorothea_4.mp3
(4:14)

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comicalhistorypart1_dorothea_5.mp3
(2:13)

I apologize for the slow turnover time, I was away for a long weekend and then work obligations hit me like a ton of bricks.
I read from the cleaner version of the book, but my poor brain still processed those s's as f's even though the word didn't quite fit (had the same problem with German texts, ugh)
As far as plosives go, I tried to iron them out in editing because I just couldn't rerecord all of the parts of the text for them to sound okay. I have a pop filter on my microphone, but sometimes my mouth is just too loud for some reason. Hope they don't bother you too much this time around.

Oh, and thank you for structuring your notes back to front!

[ToddHW]

Thank you.

Todd

[redrun]

Here are the edited files for Dorothea:

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comicalhistorypart1_dorothea_2.mp3
(2:01)

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comicalhistorypart1_dorothea_3.mp3
(8:09)

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comicalhistorypart1_dorothea_4.mp3
(4:14)

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comicalhistorypart1_dorothea_5.mp3
(2:13)

I apologize for the slow turnover time, I was away for a long weekend and then work obligations hit me like a ton of bricks.
I read from the cleaner version of the book, but my poor brain still processed those s's as f's even though the word didn't quite fit (had the same problem with German texts, ugh)
As far as plosives go, I tried to iron them out in editing because I just couldn't rerecord all of the parts of the text for them to sound okay. I have a pop filter on my microphone, but sometimes my mouth is just too loud for some reason. Hope they don't bother you too much this time around.

Oh, and thank you for structuring your notes back to front!

Excellent! Well patched where patched, the plosives are reduced quite nicely, and you've caught everything in just one patch. All parts for Dorothea are PL OK!

Also, I've lol'd in at your sig quote in front of witnesses, on two separate occasions.

[jennlea]

Here is Lucinda. I didn't find lines for her in Act 2 but there were some in Act 3. If I missed any in Act 2, let me know!

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comicalhistorypart1_lucinda_3.mp3
4:05
https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comicalhistorypart1_lucinda_4.mp3
0:42
https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comicalhistorypart1_lucinda_5.mp3
1:26

[ToddHW]

Thank you. I updated the MW to reflect Act 3.

Todd

[redrun]

Here is Lucinda. I didn't find lines for her in Act 2 but there were some in Act 3. If I missed any in Act 2, let me know!

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comicalhistorypart1_lucinda_3.mp3
4:05
https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comicalhistorypart1_lucinda_4.mp3
0:42
https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comicalhistorypart1_lucinda_5.mp3
1:26

Thank you for a very well read Lucinda, and you did great with all the fesses!
I know (now) that this word has another meaning relevant to the play, but that's what I've taken to calling our dear confusing friend, the long s.

Just a couple things to fix, with two optional tweaks thrown in:

Act 3
@2:09, page 42, OPTIONAL, "young and -ungovernable-", I hear "ungovernorable"
@1:18, page 41, in the line beginning with "Have you no Conscience", phrase "and in -severing- us", I hear "serving"

Act 4
PL OK!

Act 5
@0:29, page 80, OPTIONAL, "-The- very same", I hear "-Aye-, very same", which is just a bit harder to follow.
@Beginning, page 78, missing line beginning with "The Sorrow and Distresses". It's tucked below the "H" box.

[alanmapstone]

Nicholas act 2

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comicalhistorypart1_nicholas_2.mp3

As I am not in act 3 shall I also read Gines de Passamonte? There are quite a few roles in act 3 that need to be filled so I could help by doing one of them.

[ToddHW]

After a mostest fiercest battle with the Evil Lords of Leafblowerydom, I have Act 1 of Don Quixote recorded for your amusement.

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comicalhistorypart1_donquixote_1.mp3

6:49

Thanks, Todd

[ToddHW]

Nicholas act 2

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comicalhistorypart1_nicholas_2.mp3

As I am not in act 3 shall I also read Gines de Passamonte? There are quite a few roles in act 3 that need to be filled so I could help by doing one of them.

Alan,

For the moment, I'd prefer not. You are in both Acts 2 and 4 on either side of 3, and it might get confusing.

I will review this ruling as we get closer to complete.

Thanks, Todd