Play Suggestions
I have launched "Crossings". As mentioned above, sadly it is not PD in Europe, et al.
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Listening to the anonymous play Arden of Faversham on BBC radio I was surprised to see that there is no Librivox recording of this quite well known play. Published in 1592 it is a fictionalised version of a real life murder when Thomas Arden was murdered by his wife and her lover. A sort of Elizabethan-noir. I saw it at Stratford once and it is very good. Could anyone be persuaded to take it on. I might BC it myself if I could find a DPL and an editor.
Text is here
https://archive.org/details/ardenoffeversham00bayn/page/n8
Text is here
https://archive.org/details/ardenoffeversham00bayn/page/n8
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Hey Alan,alanmapstone wrote: ↑January 20th, 2019, 1:09 pm Listening to the anonymous play Arden of Faversham on BBC radio I was surprised to see that there is no Librivox recording of this quite well known play. Published in 1592 it is a fictionalised version of a real life murder when Thomas Arden was murdered by his wife and her lover. A sort of Elizabethan-noir. I saw it at Stratford once and it is very good. Could anyone be persuaded to take it on. I might BC it myself if I could find a DPL and an editor.
Text is here
https://archive.org/details/ardenoffeversham00bayn/page/n8
I put it on my list a while ago, but never got around to it because I prefer to BC comedies.
Here's a gutenberg link, which seems to be the same thing but might be preferred by some BCs http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43440/43440-h/43440-h.htm
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I've been reading the book I'm BCing on "Feminism in Greek Literature" (blue link below) and I've become interested in "Alcestis", which I'd never heard of before. There appear to be 4 translations in the PD, of which we already have two. Does anyone have any information/preference about the other two? Also, I would need an editor, so I'm looking for expressions of interest - it's quite a short play, only about an hour fully recorded.
Wikipedia entry on the play: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcestis_(play)
Translations which I assume would be PD:
Rev. Robert Potter, 1781 - prose apparently, but I haven't found a full text link yet.
Edward Philip Coleridge, 1891 (version on IA is 1906) - prose: https://archive.org/details/playseuripides02colegoog/page/n10
Arthur S. Way, 1912 – verse: https://librivox.org/alcestis-way-translation-by-euripides/
Gilbert Murray, 1915 - verse: https://librivox.org/alcestis-by-euripides/
(I see that the Coleridge translation also has "Ion", "Rhesus", "The Suppliants", "Heraclidae" and "Helen", which we don't have at all, and which I may also get to in the fullness of time. There is a solo but no dramatised version of "The Trojan Women".)
Wikipedia entry on the play: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcestis_(play)
Translations which I assume would be PD:
Rev. Robert Potter, 1781 - prose apparently, but I haven't found a full text link yet.
Edward Philip Coleridge, 1891 (version on IA is 1906) - prose: https://archive.org/details/playseuripides02colegoog/page/n10
Arthur S. Way, 1912 – verse: https://librivox.org/alcestis-way-translation-by-euripides/
Gilbert Murray, 1915 - verse: https://librivox.org/alcestis-by-euripides/
(I see that the Coleridge translation also has "Ion", "Rhesus", "The Suppliants", "Heraclidae" and "Helen", which we don't have at all, and which I may also get to in the fullness of time. There is a solo but no dramatised version of "The Trojan Women".)
Fiction: Regiment of Women
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With the cataloging of Funeral or Grief a-la-mode, I launched the next play by Steele: The Lying Lover.
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So of course the moment I decide to take a long break from doing plays, I find something I really want to launch: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only play The Vegetable; or, From President to Postman. I’m reading through it right now and laughing out loud as I do so. Someone should really do this one.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001112526
And as always, I can always download the PDF from HathiTrust if you can’t access it.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001112526
And as always, I can always download the PDF from HathiTrust if you can’t access it.
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Current Solo:Septimius Felton (Hawthorne's final novel)
Help Needed: Strange Interlude (O'Neill's Freudian melodrama - roles available!)
Current Solo:Septimius Felton (Hawthorne's final novel)
Help Needed: Strange Interlude (O'Neill's Freudian melodrama - roles available!)
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This looks bonkers. I am immensely tempted, even though I have another play still going and I'm not sure I'd have the time to edit it all.ChuckW wrote: ↑January 29th, 2019, 2:28 pm So of course the moment I decide to take a long break from doing plays, I find something I really want to launch: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only play The Vegetable; or, From President to Postman. I’m reading through it right now and laughing out loud as I do so. Someone should really do this one.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001112526
And as always, I can always download the PDF from HathiTrust if you can’t access it.
In any case, I wouldn't mind having the PDF available.
Tomas Peter
I know, right? It's awfully tempting. I wish I had time to coordinate this, but I worry that it might be difficult to keep up with the day-to-day if I take on too many projects at once. (Editing is generally not a problem -- I actually find it relaxing!)WiltedScribe wrote: ↑January 29th, 2019, 2:53 pmThis looks bonkers. I am immensely tempted, even though I have another play still going and I'm not sure I'd have the time to edit it all.ChuckW wrote: ↑January 29th, 2019, 2:28 pm So of course the moment I decide to take a long break from doing plays, I find something I really want to launch: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only play The Vegetable; or, From President to Postman. I’m reading through it right now and laughing out loud as I do so. Someone should really do this one.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001112526
And as always, I can always download the PDF from HathiTrust if you can’t access it.
In any case, I wouldn't mind having the PDF available.
I'll send you the PDF tonight.
PROJECTS
Current Solo:Septimius Felton (Hawthorne's final novel)
Help Needed: Strange Interlude (O'Neill's Freudian melodrama - roles available!)
Current Solo:Septimius Felton (Hawthorne's final novel)
Help Needed: Strange Interlude (O'Neill's Freudian melodrama - roles available!)
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I went ahead and launched The Vegetable. It was too irresistible. viewtopic.php?f=28&t=73620
Tomas Peter
It can also be found in "The Best plays" starting at page 140 on Archive.orgmightyfelix wrote: ↑January 17th, 2019, 2:27 pmI've scanned through about half of this one, and I really like it so far! I'll keep it in mind.ChuckW wrote: ↑January 17th, 2019, 9:46 am Icebound by Owen Davis (1923)
HathiTrust Link: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001372723
I don't know a ton about this one, other than the fact that it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. So yeah... might be worth a look.
EDIT: Author died 1956. So far, I think this is the only online text available.
https://archive.org/details/cu31924107204475/page/n153
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Thank you! I'm juggling too much right now to launch a new play, but I think there's a high likelihood that I'll come back to this one eventually.
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Found another one that looks like fun!
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004780920.0001.000
The Drummer, or, The Haunted House
Joseph Addison d. 1719
So little time...
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004780920.0001.000
The Drummer, or, The Haunted House
Joseph Addison d. 1719
So little time...
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Ok, ok, I know I just said I can't handle a play right now, but... I changed my mind! This one is simply too delightful. I'll get it going in the next day or two.mightyfelix wrote: ↑February 4th, 2019, 9:23 pm Found another one that looks like fun!
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004780920.0001.000
The Drummer, or, The Haunted House
Joseph Addison d. 1719
So little time...
And... I know we discourage music and sound effects... But, do you think I might get away with a drum, if I'm really, really careful to make sure the sound I use is PD?
If I want to use sounds in plays, I just make them myself. Knocking on doors, sounds of drinking (tea), laughs, coughs, sighs, kisses, etc. If I make them myself I know they aren't copyrighted by anyone else!
The major problem with music is that it might be PD in terms of composition, but if you use a recording then the performance attracts a new copyright. Singing yourself in a play should be fine, or getting people to sing from something that is either PD or you've made up I think would be OK.
EDIT: I always make sure the sounds don't over lie the text. So knocking first then the line "who's there?"
Last time I needed a drum or a gong (I forget which) I went into the bathroom next to the room where I record and whacked a saucepan lid with a hairbrush! The tiles produced a very nice echo effect!
The major problem with music is that it might be PD in terms of composition, but if you use a recording then the performance attracts a new copyright. Singing yourself in a play should be fine, or getting people to sing from something that is either PD or you've made up I think would be OK.
EDIT: I always make sure the sounds don't over lie the text. So knocking first then the line "who's there?"
Last time I needed a drum or a gong (I forget which) I went into the bathroom next to the room where I record and whacked a saucepan lid with a hairbrush! The tiles produced a very nice echo effect!
Fiction: Regiment of Women
Non-Fiction: History Philosophy English Literature Hellenic History
FULL: Gondoliers W&D Sherlock Holmes PSmith Dr Dolittle French Revolution
Non-Fiction: History Philosophy English Literature Hellenic History
FULL: Gondoliers W&D Sherlock Holmes PSmith Dr Dolittle French Revolution
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Launched!mightyfelix wrote: ↑February 4th, 2019, 9:23 pm Found another one that looks like fun!
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004780920.0001.000
The Drummer, or, The Haunted House
Joseph Addison d. 1719
So little time...
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