OPEN[PLAY]One Act Play Collection 014 - thw

[jennlea]

Thanks for the patience - Short & Sweet is also PL OK!

Thank you for taking the time to listen! I know it was a long one act

[jennlea]

Todd- I noticed in the MW a reader named ‘Lestrade’. I’m not sure who that is but it should be Sonia’s name instead

I’ll work on the cast list for Short and Sweet.

[ToddHW]

Thank you. I can enter multiple readers at a time by typing in their IDs, and Lestrad and Kitty's are only one digit apart.

Thanks, Todd

[jennlea]

Thank you. I can enter multiple readers at a time by typing in their IDs, and Lestrad and Kitty's are only one digit apart.

I had no idea you could do that! Always something new to learn. Here is the cast list for Short and Sweet. Sure hope I did it correctly:

Short and Sweet by Adolphus Charles Troughton. BC/Editor for this play is Jenn Broda.
Mr. Sweet (of the Stock Exchange- a Friend of Short's): <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6754">ToddHW</a><br>
Mr. Short (of the Stock Exchange- a Friend of Sweet's): <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11484">Mike Manolakes</a><br>
Stephen (a footman): <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10542">David Purdy</a><br>
Mrs. Sweet: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13852">Kelly S. Taylor</a><br>
Mrs. Short: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/14983">Anamika</a><br>
Maria (Mrs. Sweet's Maid): <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10179">Sonia</a><br>
Stage Directions: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8425">Larry Wilson</a><br>

[ToddHW]

Thank you. I can enter multiple readers at a time by typing in their IDs, and Lestrad and Kitty's are only one digit apart.

I had no idea you could do that! Always something new to learn.

You can make up a list of the reader ID numbers, separated by commas, in advance. (I use my email editor.) Then at the MW Assign Reader selection, copy the whole list into the reader box to assign them all to the same section.

Thanks, Todd

[jennlea]

You can make up a list of the reader ID numbers, separated by commas, in advance. (I use my email editor.) Then at the MW Assign Reader selection, copy the whole list into the reader box to assign them all to the same section.

Awesome! Thanks!

[ToddHW]

Here is the status on 11 Jan.

1 "Lover"; 2 "Easter"; 3 "Bloomer"; 4 "Short/Sweet"; 5 "Hester"; 6 "Sweet/20"; 7 "Heirs"; 9 "Retained": DONE

8 "1999": FULL, 1 section not submitted
10: "Geraldine": FULL, 2 sections not submitted

Thanks, Todd

[benderca]

Miss Nora Baillie, A Professor of Literature in Lady Geraldine's Speech:

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

[ToddHW]

Thank you.

Todd

[mightyfelix]

Miss Nora Baillie, A Professor of Literature in Lady Geraldine's Speech:

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

Thanks, TJ! So, how much do you actually know about Chaucer and Shakespeare? I have a couple of little corrections I'd like.

0:55 I'm not sure if it's just my ears, but I think I hear "His statue was not very tall." This should be "His stature was not very tall." (p. 9)
1:02 This one's a bit more nitpicky, but I can't imagine that such an eminent professor would misquote a line about Chaucer. I hear, "Hosed with a stock of red." It should be "Hosed within a stock of red." (p. 9)

[ToddHW]

Thank you.

Todd

[benderca]

Miss Nora Baillie, A Professor of Literature in Lady Geraldine's Speech:

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

Thanks, TJ! So, how much do you actually know about Chaucer and Shakespeare? I have a couple of little corrections I'd like.

0:55 I'm not sure if it's just my ears, but I think I hear "His statue was not very tall." This should be "His stature was not very tall." (p. 9)
1:02 This one's a bit more nitpicky, but I can't imagine that such an eminent professor would misquote a line about Chaucer. I hear, "Hosed with a stock of red." It should be "Hosed within a stock of red." (p. 9)

The only experience I have had with Chaucer was my role in "The Belles of Canterbury" in one of our one-act play collections a couple of years ago :
https://librivox.org/one-act-play-collection-010-by-various/

But I have read a lot of Shakespeare and acted in several plays, so I have to agree with Nora's assessment of Shakespeare's position, especially in regards to characters like Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing who clearly run the show. (I read a Beatrice monologue in one of our Shakespeare monologue collections). Of course we have characters like Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew who cave, but I have to think Shakespeare wrote that whole play tong-in-cheek -- to emphasize how ridiculous the concept of wife obedience is... .

Here's the new version with the two corrections:
https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/ladygeraldinesspeech_norabaillie_harraden.mp3

[mightyfelix]

Yay! PL ok now! Just one more role needed for Geraldine!

( Do you know, Canterbury Tales has been on my to-read list for probably almost ten years. I even have a copy. Maybe this year will be the year.)

[ToddHW]

Orphaned Jean in In 1999.

Thanks, Todd

[WendyKatzHiller]

I'd be happy to claim Jean in 1999.
Thanks,
Wendy