This project is now complete. All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/caliban-by-the-yellow-sands-by-percy-mackaye/
Volunteers outside the USA: Percy MacKaye died in 1956. His work is still protected by copyright in places, like Europe, where copyright is Author’s death plus 70 years and Australia (author’s death plus 70 years for authors who died after 1954).
Caliban, the primitive, savage son of the witch Sycorax and the evil frog-tiger god Setebos, seeks to obtain knowledge and become civilized through a strange magician named Prospero and his young daughter, Miranda. Through fantastic visions (including many excerpts of other Shakespeare plays), poetry, song and dance, thus begins the slow, gradual education of a inquisitive brute as he faces enlightenment and wicked temptation.
Serving as a thematic companion piece and maybe spiritual prequel and midquel to William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Caliban by the Yellow Sands was a massive, elaborate and outdoor "community masque" performed from 1914-1917 in New York, St. Louis and Boston as part of the three-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's death. Preaching an anti-war message in response to the current events of World War I, it was a smashing success, as it was seen by over two hundred thousand spectators and utilized thousands of amateur artisans and actors to bring its giant vision to life. (Mary Kay)
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Genres for the project: Plays/Drama; General Fiction/Published 1900 onward; Classics (Antiquity); Poetry
Keywords that describe the book: poetry, Shakespeare, World War I, WWI, song, magic, music, allegory, pacifism, William Shakespeare, visions, civilization, anniversary, dance, community, brave new world, tribute, masque, the tempest, caliban, prospero, miranda, sycorax, civic theatre, thematic
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[Role], read by [your name].
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At the end: End of Act [#].
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This is a huuuuuuuuge cast, so I am bundling up roles in an attempt to have to utilize as few people as possible.Final Sections:
- Preface
- Masque Structure, Person and Presences
- Prologue (notated as "P" in below cast list)
- Act I ("1")
- Act II ("2")
- Act III ("3")
- Epilogue ("E")
- Appendix: Foreword and Elaborated Interludes
If you choose to select one role, you MUST READ EVERY ROLE LISTED IN THE PACKAGE.
I tried to make it so each role has at least one or two exciting roles mixed in for you to perform. If possible, I'd love this to be a "flashmob" production, so we can release it within a month or two of Shakespearean 400th anniversary of the Bard's death. This play is not PD for Life+50 countries or Australia. The author died in 1956.Cast List
- Narrator (P-E)
- Ariel (P-3)
- Prospero / The Shepard / Shakespeare (P-E)
- Miranda / The Figure (P-E)
- Caliban (P-E)
- Voices from Below / Power of Setebos / All / The Dirge / The Soldiers (P-3)
- Voices from Within / Spirits of Ariel / All / The Chorus (P-E)
- "Actor 1"
P: Sycorax
1: Cleopatra
2: Juliet
3: War / The Voice / Mrs. Page
- "Actor 2"
1: Cressida / Charmian / Lust / The Emperor
2: Perdita
3: Mrs. Quickly
E: The Spirit of Time
- "Actor 3"
1: Antony / Troilus
2: Horatio / Benvolio
3: Adam / Falstaff / Pistol
- "Actor 4"
1: Pandarus / Ghost of Caesar
2: Hamlet / Mercutio / Lorenzo
3: The Duke / Evans / King Henry
- "Actor 5"
1: Attendant / Brutus
2: Florizel / Marcellus / Romeo
3: Orlando / Pistol
- "Actor 6"
1: Eros / The Boy / Lucius
2: Death
3: Jacques / Mrs. Ford
Most of these roles are gender neutral, but I do want Miranda, Prospero and Caliban to be gender specific. I made the "actors" fairly gender specific as well (1, 2, 6 are female, 3, 4, 5 are male), but I have no major qualms about whoever wants to take them. Ariel and the chorus voices (which will only be one person) are gender neutral.
I am looking for a DPL and any interested editors!
Any questions?
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