[COMPLETE] Ann by Lechmere Worrall - dlo

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Ann by Lechmere Worrall (1874 - 1957).

This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/ann-by-lechmere-worrall/

Volunteers outside the USA: Lechmere Worrall died in 1957. His/Her work is still protected by copyright in places, like Europe, where copyright is author's death plus 70 years.
Edward Hargraves, a young author, is encouraged by his mother and friend, Billy, to marry a woman in order to understand the fairer sex better and thereby characterize them better in his next book. While he attempts to follow their advice and marry Evangeline, a pleasant but rather uninteresting woman, a daring American reporter, Ann, has set her eyes on him. She will stop at nothing to gain an interview with him - and his love. ( Elsie Selwyn)
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      Genres for the project: Plays/Comedy

      Keywords that describe the book: comedy, women, play, romance, marriage, author

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Last edited by elsieselwyn on August 12th, 2019, 7:31 am, edited 12 times in total.
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I will PL all parts and edit the play together. I will need a DPL for the finished play combined together.

MC most welcome! :D
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May I claim Ann Anning?
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leanneyauyau wrote: May 28th, 2019, 2:08 am May I claim Ann Anning?
Sure! It’s all yours - I’ll put you in when the MW is up.
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Excellent! I love doing American accents.
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I'd love to sign up for Evangeline. :?:
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thestorygirl wrote: May 28th, 2019, 1:58 pm I'd love to sign up for Evangeline. :?:
Ooh, are you going to do a British voice Trisha? Accent swap :lol:
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thestorygirl wrote: May 28th, 2019, 1:58 pm I'd love to sign up for Evangeline. :?:
Absolutely - I’ll put you in when a MC has prepared the MW.
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leanneyauyau wrote: May 28th, 2019, 2:00 pm

Ooh, are you going to do a British voice Trisha? Accent swap :lol:
I hadn't noticed accent requirements, but I can do my best version. It wouldn't be the first time. Will this be a battle of the accents? :P
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thestorygirl wrote: May 28th, 2019, 5:12 pm
leanneyauyau wrote: May 28th, 2019, 2:00 pm

Ooh, are you going to do a British voice Trisha? Accent swap :lol:
I hadn't noticed accent requirements, but I can do my best version. It wouldn't be the first time. Will this be a battle of the accents? :P
I challenge you to a duel :D

Librivox never had accent requirements, but if you read the play, it's about a British man who knows nothing about women ditching a boring British prude (Evangeline) for the American Anne.
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Do you suppose that his bohemian artist friend Billy could be from Her Majesty’s Sunburnt Dominion? :wink:

I can make it somewhat more “Cultured Australian”, rather than sounding like a member of the Push as I have done once or twice recently.

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SonOfTheExiles wrote: May 28th, 2019, 6:08 pm Do you suppose that his bohemian artist friend Billy could be from Her Majesty’s Sunburnt Dominion? :wink:

I can make it somewhat more “Cultured Australian”, rather than sounding like a member of the Push as I have done once or twice recently.

Cheers,
Chris
Absolutely! Thank you for joining! I'll put you in when the MW is ready
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leanneyauyau wrote: May 28th, 2019, 5:15 pm I challenge you to a duel :D

Librivox never had accent requirements, but if you read the play, it's about a British man who knows nothing about women ditching a boring British prude (Evangeline) for the American Anne.
You're on! :D
Yeah, I figured I could at least pull off the boring prude. :lol:
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Hi Elsie! I'd be happy to DPL the finished piece for you!

Just a comment after reading the script: You may need to give some directions to the narrator (assuming you are not going to narrate this yourself) as there are a LOT of stage directions which don't actually add anything to the action. I'd suggest asking the narrator not to read any of the purely "movement" directions (such as "Coming down C.") as the stage directions don't actually add anything to the audio version and can IMO be omitted. Most of the "style" directions can likewise be left out, again there are a lot of these which are better conveyed by the actors (such as "impulsively", "significantly", "severely", etc). If you DO want any of these then you might want to ask the narrator to give the name of the character speaking first, as it can be hard to know, so I would ask the narrator to say something like "Mrs Hargreaves, whispering to Edward" or "Ann starts as if she were going to say something" even if the script doesn't actually have the character's name given there.
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Elizabby wrote: May 29th, 2019, 11:27 pm Hi Elsie! I'd be happy to DPL the finished piece for you!

Just a comment after reading the script: You may need to give some directions to the narrator (assuming you are not going to narrate this yourself) as there are a LOT of stage directions which don't actually add anything to the action. I'd suggest asking the narrator not to read any of the purely "movement" directions (such as "Coming down C.") as the stage directions don't actually add anything to the audio version and can IMO be omitted. Most of the "style" directions can likewise be left out, again there are a lot of these which are better conveyed by the actors (such as "impulsively", "significantly", "severely", etc). If you DO want any of these then you might want to ask the narrator to give the name of the character speaking first, as it can be hard to know, so I would ask the narrator to say something like "Mrs Hargreaves, whispering to Edward" or "Ann starts as if she were going to say something" even if the script doesn't actually have the character's name given there.
Thank you for DPLing! I think I’ll narrate as long as you’re willing to PL this as well. Thank you for your advice on narrating - I think you’re right.
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Like Sweden and coming of age stories? Read for Pelle the Conqueror
Like travelogues and Anthony Trollope? Read for The West Indies and the Spanish Main
Shadowland: October, 1919
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