Dramatic Reading Suggestions

Plays and other dramatic works
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DeenaMae
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WoollyBee wrote:
Breeze wrote:Why hasn't any one done a dramatic reading of Pilgrims Progress. It's written in a format that should make the text fairly easy to prepare. If some one does do it I will probably read a part.
I'll do it! Probably won't be ready for a few months, though. I need to finish up my other projects first. :D

I am certainly game to be a part of that! And a bigger part if you also do part 2 (with Christiana's journey) since there's a whole lot more female parts options in that! ;)
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Has anyone thought about doing Alcott's Little Men & Jo's Boys as dramatic readings, as has been done with Little Women?
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Also, A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett would be good, too. :)
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Hi Deena,

A Little Princess has already been done as a DR: http://librivox.org/a-little-princess-dramatic-reading-by-frances-hodgson-burnett/ :D
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How am I always missing these things?? :lol:

I guess I missed that one because it was done recently...a while after me downloading the book to listen to. :)

Thanks, Maria!
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I think In His Steps would make a good dramatic reading. :)
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The Great Divide by William Vaughn Moody (1869-1910)

http://archive.org/details/greatdivideapla00goog

The Lafayette (LA) Advertiser termed the play “the long awaited great American play,” saying that “no other drama has so well reflected the manhood, the freedom, the honesty and the indomitable spirit characteristic of the people of our great Western country.”

(this from a most interesting essay on this play at http://www.metropolitanplayhouse.org/essaygreatdivide )

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I think that sounds intriguing, Ruth. :-D
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DeenaMae wrote:Has anyone thought about doing Alcott's Little Men & Jo's Boys as dramatic readings, as has been done with Little Women?
Oh those would be very fun!
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DeenaMae wrote:Has anyone thought about doing Alcott's Little Men & Jo's Boys as dramatic readings, as has been done with Little Women?
I am already thinking about doing Jo's Boys! :D I started working on the script a few months ago. Progress is slow, but steady. :wink:
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WoollyBee wrote:
DeenaMae wrote:Has anyone thought about doing Alcott's Little Men & Jo's Boys as dramatic readings, as has been done with Little Women?
I am already thinking about doing Jo's Boys! :D I started working on the script a few months ago. Progress is slow, but steady. :wink:
Let me know when you finish it! I would LOVE to read Jo. :) At the moment I am Beth in Little Women at a theatre near us...so much fun. :)
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francesb wrote:
WoollyBee wrote:
DeenaMae wrote:Has anyone thought about doing Alcott's Little Men & Jo's Boys as dramatic readings, as has been done with Little Women?
I am already thinking about doing Jo's Boys! :D I started working on the script a few months ago. Progress is slow, but steady. :wink:
Let me know when you finish it! I would LOVE to read Jo. :) At the moment I am Beth in Little Women at a theatre near us...so much fun. :)
Sure thing! Sounds like fun.
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DeenaMae wrote:I think In His Steps would make a good dramatic reading. :)
I agree.
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ToddHW wrote:Well, we have recorded Faust. But have we recorded "The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce" by William Mountfort?

3 act play from 1697. (It gets confusing that it is PD cuz the Gutenberg book is a 1973 reprint....)

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37422

Anyone game? (Too much on my plate today!)

Thanks, Todd
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EDIT: I did start it!

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I would like to begin a new Sherlock Holmes Dramatic Reading... Being a huge fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his timeless characters. :D
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