This collection now has ten plays so no more will be added. When this one is complete I will be starting collection 009
Michele (wib66) will be BC for this set of one act plays. Please Note:Some plays are not PD for readers in Europe and/or Australia, and other countries which observe copyright of author's death +70 years. These are identified below and in the MW
How to volunteer to BC a play:
This is a great opportunity for anyone who's always wanted to BC a dramatic reading but isn't quite ready to do a full-length play. (Of course it's open to experienced BCs as well!) Please note that if you propose a play for inclusion in the collection, you are responsible either for editing, proof-listening and coordinating it yourself, or for finding other volunteers to fill these roles. Volunteers outside the USA: Be aware that some of the plays are still protected by copyright law some places, like Europe, where copyright is author's death plus 70 years, Australia (author's death plus 70 years for authors who died after 1955) or Canada (author's death plus 50 years).
Please note for ease of claiming parts all plays will have gender neutral casting.
Please look at the list of plays that have previously been submitted before choosing a play to co-ordinate. Please claim your play in the thread; You will be the BC for your play. I will put files in the MW and keep that up to date but you are expected to Proof Listen submitted parts and then edit the play together when all parts are submitted. This collection is capped at 10 plays. Each BC needs to provide the following information about each play:
* Title and author
* PD text link
* Link to author on Wikipedia, and death date, if known
* Link to title on Wikipedia
* Number of roles (including narrator) this project will have
* Original publication date
* The list of characters in your plays so when we have a MW I can set up your sections properly!
If you would like to claim a role yourself please do so. Below are some resources you can use to find a play, but don't feel limited to these. Also, remember to check what has already been recorded in the previous One-Act Play Collections (see next post in this thread)
Project Gutenberg also has a list of many authors who have written one-act plays: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/One_Act_Plays_(Bookshelf)
Readers: to find a section to record, simply look at point 5. below at the sections. All the ones without names beside them are “up for grabs.” Click "Post reply" at the top left of the screen and tell us which section you’d like to read (include the section number from the left-most column in the reader list, please). Read points 6. to 8. below for what to do before, during and after your recording.
Prospective Prooflisteners: Please read the Listeners Wanted FAQ before listening! Level of prooflistening requested: standard. Please Listen against the text to make sure that all lines have been read.
Please don't download or listen to files belonging to projects in process (unless you are the BC or PL). Our servers are not set up to handle the greater volume of traffic. Please wait until the project has been completed. Thanks!
Magic Window:
BC Admin
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Genres for the project: Dramatic Readings; Plays; Plays/Comedy; Plays/Drama; Plays/Romance
How to claim a part in a play: Please note for ease of claiming parts all plays will have gender neutral casting.
- Open parts are shown in the Magic Window above.
- Please post your claim, noting the section number (the numbers in the first column below)!
- If this is your first recording, please let me know under which name or pseudonym you'd like to appear in the LibriVox catalogue. We can also link to a personal website/blog.
- Instructions for recording your part, naming and submitting the file are below the Magic Window.
Is there a deadline?
We ask that you submit your recorded sections within 1-2 months of placing your claim. Please note that to be fair to the readers who have completed their sections in a timely way, if you haven't submitted your recording(s) after two months, your sections will automatically be re-opened for other readers to claim, unless you post in this thread to request an extension. Extensions will be granted at the discretion of the Book Coordinator. If you cannot do your section, for whatever reason, just let me know and it'll go back to the pool. There's no shame in this; we're all volunteers and things happen.Please do not sign up for more sections than you can complete within the two month deadline.
Set your recording software to:
Channels: 1 (Mono)
Bit Rate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Submit one file per act.
Make sure you add this to the beginning of your recording: [Role], read by [your name].
If you are reading stage directions, please include for each file:At the beginning: [Play Name] , by [Play Author], One Act Play Collection 008 . This is a Librivox recording. All Librivox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit Librivox dot org.
At the end: End of Act [#].
Please remember to check this thread frequently for updates!
AFTER recording
Save files as
128 kbps MP3
For individual roles, use file name:
titleinoneword_charactername_authorsurname.mp3 (all lower-case). (e.g. punchandgo_electrics_galsworthy.mp3)
for final edited plays, use file name:
oneactplays008_titleinoneword_authorsurname_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case). (e.g. oneactplays008_punchandgo_galsworthy_128kb)
Transfer of files (completed recordings) Please always post in this forum thread when you've sent a file. Also, post the length of the recording (file duration: mm:ss) together with the link.
Upload your file with the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader
(If you have trouble reading the image above, please message an admin)
You'll need to select the MC, which for this project is: maryannspiegel
When your upload is complete, you will receive a link - please post it in this thread.
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Michele When you're having what you feel like is a 'bad day' and then someone comes along out of nowhere and extends to you the simplest of kind gestures, you feel it so deeply within your heart.” ―Miya Yamanouchi
Previous Collections Plays already recorded in previous collections
One Act Play Collection 001 Author The First and the Last- John Galsworthy A Marriage has been Arranged- Alfred Sutro The Swan Song- Anton Chekhov Trifles- Susan Glaspell War Brides- Marion Craig Wentworth Wurzel Flummery- A.A. Milne
One Act Play Collection 002 Author Before Breakfast- Eugene O'Neill The Buller Podington Compact- Frank Richard Stockton The Dark Lady of the Sonnets- George Bernard Shaw The First and the Last- John Galsworthy How he Lied to her Husband- George Bernard Shaw The Outside- Susan Glaspell The Parlor Car- William D Howells Riders to the Sea- John Millington Synge
One Act Play Collection 003 Author Eugenically Speaking- Edward Goodman The Pot Boiler- Alice Gerstenberg A Good Woman- Arnold Bennet The Sun- John Galsworthy The Bear- Anton Chekov The Tenor- Frank Wedekind The Pretentious Young Ladies- Moliere Lonesome Like- Harolod Brighouse Enter the Hero- Theresa Helburn A Proposal Under Difficulties- John Kendrick Bangs
One Act Play Collection 004 Author The Bicyclers- John Kendrick Bangs The Dark Lady of Sonnets- George Bernard Shaw Eolaus, A Dramatic Poem- James Allen Fame and the Poet- Lord Dunsany Is She His Wife- Charles Dickens King Lear's Wife- Gordon bottomley The Land of Heart's Desire- William butler Yeats Mr Nightingale's Diary- Charles Dickens The Stronger- August Strindberg Trifles- Susan Glaspell War Brides- Marion Craig Wentworth Woman's Honor- Susan Glaspell
One Act Play Collection 005 Author Abstraction- Basil Hall Chamberlain The Constant Lover- St John Hankin The Day of the Boomer Dukes- Frederik Pohl Forgotten Souls- David Pinski Overtones- Alice Gerstenberg Supressed Desires- Susan Glaspell and George Cram Tides- George Middleton The Twelve Pound Look- J.M. Barrie When Shades Assemble- Marjory Benton Cooke Zenobia- Hereward Carrington
One Act Play Collection 006 Author Madame Butterfly- David Belasco The Hunting of the Snark- Lewis Carroll Something to Vote For- Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Sightless- Maurice Maeterlinck Punch and Go- John Galsworthy The Falcon- Alfred Lord Tennyson Night At The Inn- Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany A Midsummer Dance Dream- Anna Bird Stewart Zenobia- Hereward Carrington A Question of Sex- Arnold Bennett
One Act Play Collection 007 Author The Stepmother- Arnold Bennett The Woman Tamer Louis Esson Dead Timber - Louis Esson The Wedding - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov The Anniversary - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Grotesques- Cloyd Head A Tragedian in Spite of Himself - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov The Slave With Two Faces - Mary Carolyn Davies The Masque of the Two Strangers - Lady Alix Egerton Fourteen - Alice Gerstenberg Moonshine - Arthur Hopkins
Michele When you're having what you feel like is a 'bad day' and then someone comes along out of nowhere and extends to you the simplest of kind gestures, you feel it so deeply within your heart.” ―Miya Yamanouchi
*The Princess in the Fairy Tale by Constance Grenelle Wilcox
* https://archive.org/details/princessinfairyt00wilc
* none
* none
* 10
* 1920
*
Narrator
Princess in the Fairy Tale
Old Nurse
Dragon
Prince in the Fairy Tale
Billy Travers
King in the Fairy Tale
Queen in the Fairy Tale
Little Princesses (5)
The Heralds (2)
I'd also like to claim Dragon from this play.
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The Princess in the Fairy Tale by Constance Grenelle Wilcox
* https://archive.org/details/princessinfairyt00wilc
* none
* none
* 10
* 1920
*
Narrator
Princess in the Fairy Tale
Old Nurse
Dragon
Prince in the Fairy Tale
Billy Travers
King in the Fairy Tale
Queen in the Fairy Tale
Little Princesses (5)
The Heralds (2)
I'd also like to claim Dragon from this play.
THanks for that as soon as the MW is up and running I will update it with your play.
Michele When you're having what you feel like is a 'bad day' and then someone comes along out of nowhere and extends to you the simplest of kind gestures, you feel it so deeply within your heart.” ―Miya Yamanouchi
I would prefer, to start with, that each person only BC one play. The reason being that the last collection ended up with me having to take over from BC's who has signed up to do two plays and couldn't complete them. I am not saying that as a complaint as I know people's real life kick in and I was happy to do it. However it is more difficult to pick up someone else's project so for now please just choose one and if that one gets finished and there is still space then you could do another. Hope that's ok thanks.
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Michele When you're having what you feel like is a 'bad day' and then someone comes along out of nowhere and extends to you the simplest of kind gestures, you feel it so deeply within your heart.” ―Miya Yamanouchi
wib66 wrote:I would prefe,r to start with, that each person only BC one play. The reason being that the last collection ended up with me having to take over from BC's who has signed up to do two plays and couldn't complete them. I am not saying that as a complaint as I know people's real life kick in and I was happy to do it. However it is more difficult to pick up someone else's project so for now please just choose one and if that one gets finished and there is still space then you could do another. Hope that's ok thanks.
Human Nature it is!
Hello! Newly graduated and occasional Librivox contributor.
Ok thanks I will have to wait until the MW is here to sign everyone up properly thanks
Michele When you're having what you feel like is a 'bad day' and then someone comes along out of nowhere and extends to you the simplest of kind gestures, you feel it so deeply within your heart.” ―Miya Yamanouchi
I have looked to read a part in the one act play collection before and have found it terribly confusing. So, to make it easier on people who may not be as familiar with the process, I've moved some things around in the MW. Basically, put all of the instructions for a reader together in one spot.
Hi MaryAnn
Thanks for that the MW looks great now much easier to read and understand. Thanks
Michele When you're having what you feel like is a 'bad day' and then someone comes along out of nowhere and extends to you the simplest of kind gestures, you feel it so deeply within your heart.” ―Miya Yamanouchi
Hi Ali
I am just about to update the MW to state that this is not PD for readers in Europe and/or Australia and other countries which observe copyright of author's death +70 years.
Before I sign you up please can you let me know if you are still able to read for this play thanks
Michele When you're having what you feel like is a 'bad day' and then someone comes along out of nowhere and extends to you the simplest of kind gestures, you feel it so deeply within your heart.” ―Miya Yamanouchi
*The Princess in the Fairy Tale by Constance Grenelle Wilcox
* https://archive.org/details/princessinfairyt00wilc
* none
* none
* 10
* 1920
*
Narrator
Princess in the Fairy Tale
Old Nurse
Dragon
Prince in the Fairy Tale
Billy Travers
King in the Fairy Tale
Queen in the Fairy Tale
Little Princesses (5)
The Heralds (2)
I'd also like to claim Dragon from this play.
We need to double check the PD details for this play as the writer was still having works published in 1953. given this information we need to know her birth and death dates. Depending on this we need to identify this as not PD for Europe/Australia and countries where the +70 rule applies. The rule of shorter term does not apply as these were published outside of USA. Please can you confirm this before people start to sign up to parts. Thanks
Michele When you're having what you feel like is a 'bad day' and then someone comes along out of nowhere and extends to you the simplest of kind gestures, you feel it so deeply within your heart.” ―Miya Yamanouchi
Hi Ali
I am just about to update the MW to state that this is not PD for readers in Europe and/or Australia and other countries which observe copyright of author's death +70 years.
Before I sign you up please can you let me know if you are still able to read for this play thanks
Hi Michele,
So you know, I'm Canadian, but I'm in the United States (and have been for several years) for grad school, and I'll be recording in the United States. But definitely nothing to do with Europe or Australia. Please let me know what will happen.
