Play Suggestions

[alanmapstone]

Hi Alan, I would also like to express interest in working with you on some of these as an editor, I haven't done it before but it's something I'd like to try out if you don't mind an amateur. Though also because I haven't done it before it's probably better to start small, I've been thinking of doing one of those one act plays when the next collection starts to get some experience but if you're wiling to wait I'd be interested in working on some of these in the future.

Hi Inkell
I have now decided to launch Athaliah which Todd will edit. I may also do Medea soon but I will probably edit that myself as it is a smaller task. That will keep me busy for a while.
If you want to try editing a play the 1-act collection is the best place to start. The GBS play which you were in was my first try at editing, a short play with only 3 characters. Find something similar to BC and edit yourself. Also in the 1-act project you will get help and advice from Todd, our most experienced editor of DWs.
Good Luck

This GBS play O'Flaherty V.C. might be suitable (just 4 characters and less than a hour long). I was considering it myself but would be happy to take a role if you do it.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3484/3484-h/3484-h.htm

[Inkell]

Hi Inkell
I have now decided to launch Athaliah which Todd will edit. I may also do Medea soon but I will probably edit that myself as it is a smaller task. That will keep me busy for a while.
If you want to try editing a play the 1-act collection is the best place to start. The GBS play which you were in was my first try at editing, a short play with only 3 characters. Find something similar to BC and edit yourself. Also in the 1-act project you will get help and advice from Todd, our most experienced editor of DWs.
Good Luck

This GBS play O'Flaherty V.C. might be suitable (just 4 characters and less than a hour long). I was considering it myself but would be happy to take a role if you do it.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3484/3484-h/3484-h.htm

Hi Alan, like I said I do intend to try a 1-act play when the next collection starts (the current one is full and still in-progress) depending on some questions I have about PLing. Thanks for the play recommendation but I'm sure there's plenty to choose from so you don't need to give up on one you want to do. Anyway good lucky with your plays

[ToddHW]

What question do you have about PL'ing stuff in a one act play collection?

Thanks, Todd

[Inkell]

What question do you have about PL'ing stuff in a one act play collection?

Thanks, Todd

If you have to PL your own one act play or if you can find someone else willing to do it, and if the latter then how would you go about doing that

[ToddHW]

Info from the One Act collection first post:

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.

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.

A good way to find volunteers to help you with editing and PL'ing - if you don't want to do them yourself - is to post in the current one act collection forum viewtopic.php?t=93303 That has been very effective at getting help.

Note that if you do edit, someone else must PL the completed play before it gets cataloged, and again a volunteer for that is often found by posting in the collection for one of the other BCs, or a reader in one of the plays, to help.

I do all the MW work for the plays in the collection, setting up your project in the MW, posting and statusing claims, and then getting everything ready to catalog when all the plays are complete.

Thanks, Todd

[DrSpoke]

Hello,

in case some of the experienced Play coordinators can easily find out if this could be fun and add it to their long list of "sooner-or-later":

The chapter of accidents, a comedy by Miss Lee
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044015486061&view=1up&seq=43

I gather it is indebted to other authors, which is not necessarily a bad thing. I was looking up some completely different content and stumbled on this..

Thanks

Edit +

and this?

The paradox of acting - from Diderot's 'Paradoxe sur le comédien'
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t76t17n0n&view=1up&seq=1

[alanmapstone]

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton

https://archive.org/details/cu31924013133438/page/n15/mode/1up?view=theater

This city comedy would be fun to do. I can't take it on just now. Anyone else interested?

[tefavidal]

What is the librivox policy about using Wikisource as a source?
I was going through the one-act plays of GBS and this is the only source I could find of Passion Poison and Putrefaction https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Passion,_Poison,_and_Petrifaction

[annise]

If you page down to the end you find this https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ and so we can't use it as a source .

Anne

[Salvationist]

If you page down to the end you find this https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ and so we can't use it as a source .

Anne

I was under the opposite impression. It states that the Creative Commons license is in effect “unless otherwise noted”, and in this case, it is is otherwise noted because it states just above the Creative Commons notice that this particular text is in the public domain. I think this is a valid source for a LibriVox project, but I would be glad to discuss the matter further and I am open to being convinced otherwise.

[alanmapstone]

Giles Corey of the Salem Farms by Longfellow

A verse tragedy by Longfellow about the Salem Witch Trials. Giles Corey was an English-born farmer who was "pressed to death" to make him confess to witchcraft. His wife was one of the 19 women hanged after the trials. The play has similarities to Arthur Miller's more recent and better known play The Crucible.

https://archive.org/details/newenglandtraged00long/page/96/mode/1up?view=theater

I may run this myself sometime but am too busy at present. If anyone else wants to run it I would be happy to help out.

[Inkell]

Giles Corey of the Salem Farms by Longfellow

A verse tragedy by Longfellow about the Salem Witch Trials. Giles Corey was an English-born farmer who was "pressed to death" to make him confess to witchcraft. His wife was one of the 19 women hanged after the trials. The play has similarities to Arthur Miller's more recent and better known play The Crucible.

https://archive.org/details/newenglandtraged00long/page/96/mode/1up?view=theater

I may run this myself sometime but am too busy at present. If anyone else wants to run it I would be happy to help out.

Who reads the prologue in this?

[alanmapstone]

Giles Corey of the Salem Farms by Longfellow
A verse tragedy by Longfellow about the Salem Witch Trials. Giles Corey was an English-born farmer who was "pressed to death" to make him confess to witchcraft. His wife was one of the 19 women hanged after the trials. The play has similarities to Arthur Miller's more recent and better known play The Crucible.
https://archive.org/details/newenglandtraged00long/page/96/mode/1up?view=theater
I may run this myself sometime but am too busy at present. If anyone else wants to run it I would be happy to help out.

Who reads the prologue in this?

Hi
I have not looked at this in detail as I am not planning to run it anytime soon, I just suggested it as a play people might be interested in.
I think the prologue could be read by the Stage Directions reader or by a separate readers, that would be a decision for the BC.

[Salvationist]

On the subjects of plays someone might be interested in coordinating at some point but that I have no intention of coordinating in the near future, I present for your consideration The Canterbury Pilgrims: A Comedy:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70526

I would love to see a DR of The Canterbury Tales in the LibriVox catalogue, but I don’t think there are any public domain modern English translations yet. This play based on The Canterbury Tales could be a fun alternative while we wait for a modern English translation of the original to enter the public domain.

[BookWyrm]

I'm getting my toes wet in Librivox again after years of absence, so not sure if I'm up to managing a project, but how about "The Group" by Mercy Otis Warren? There's a great resource from the University of Michigan called the Evans Early American Imprint Collection (https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans?rgn=subject;type=simple;q1=Drama), which has not only Warren's works but many others by early American dramatists.