COMPLETE: Coriolanus by William Shakespeare - ek

gloriana · Post by **gloriana** » September 25th, 2011, 6:11 pm

sarahelizabeth wrote:If the Gentlewoman and Messenger roles are indeed orphaned, may I volunteer for both of those?

Sure - thanks, sarah!

Kristingj · Post by **Kristingj** » September 25th, 2011, 11:32 pm

Hi, could I take section 23, if you don't mind me being a girl and all:P

Kristin

gloriana · Post by **gloriana** » September 26th, 2011, 6:24 am

Kristingj wrote:Hi, could I take section 23, if you don't mind me being a girl and all:P

Kristin

That would be great - thank you!

Post by **ToddHW** » September 28th, 2011, 7:39 pm

Could I take second servingman (31) and second senator (30) - does not appear that they conflict.

Thanks, Todd

gloriana · Post by **gloriana** » September 29th, 2011, 6:07 pm

ToddHW wrote:Could I take second servingman (31) and second senator (30) - does not appear that they conflict.

Thanks, Todd

Sure - thanks, Todd!

Post by **ToddHW** » October 1st, 2011, 1:44 pm

Here are my files; I included lines for All when in the same scene.

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/ek/coriolanus_secondsenator_1.mp3
length 1:06

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/ek/coriolanus_secondsenator_3.mp3
length 0:10 (The internal tag labels it track 2 for act 2 - it really is for Act 3 as I introduce it)

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/ek/coriolanus_secondsenator_5.mp3
length 0:43

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/ek/coriolanus_secondservingman_4.mp3
length 2:32

Ready to fix anything that needs it!

Thanks, Todd

thebicyclethief · Post by **thebicyclethief** » October 1st, 2011, 1:56 pm

I'll get down to fulfilling my obligations as DPL soon ... there are some errors in this text and the name Coriolanus is often wrongly substituted for Martius, i.e. before Act 1 sc. 9 and probably when Aufidius calls him Martius at the end. I don't think we have any choice about having the names consistent throughout, otherwise it will affect the impact of the production.

Thoughts?

Duncan

Post by **ToddHW** » October 1st, 2011, 3:09 pm

thebicyclethief wrote:I'll get down to fulfilling my obligations as DPL soon ... there are some errors in this text and the name Coriolanus is often wrongly substituted for Martius, i.e. before Act 1 sc. 9 and probably when Aufidius calls him Martius at the end. I don't think we have any choice about having the names consistent throughout, otherwise it will affect the impact of the production.

Thoughts?

Duncan

I agree that we have to make it consistent for the listeners. Hard enough to keep track of what is going on when there are no visuals to explain who is who and what is what. If worried about fidelity to the PD text, there have to be plenty of PD versions of Shakespeare that are correct even if the specific one chosen here is not.

I listened to one of our recorded one act plays this week, and the narrator introduced each voice line throughout with an sotta voce Keith or Larry or - and it was VERY effective and did not at all detract. You could accurately argue that the character names are written in the source material for every play.

Thanks, Todd

gloriana · Post by **gloriana** » October 1st, 2011, 6:15 pm

Thanks for your files, Todd! They are in the MW, marked as complete.

Duncan, there's no rush. I anticipate this being a pretty long-term project. Thanks in advance for your work. If there's ever any question about textual accuracy, please just include it as part of the notes and I will check it against an authoritative text. (I have several editions of Shakespeare, but usually use the Norton, if anyone's interested...)

Post by **Availle** » October 2nd, 2011, 2:13 pm

5th citizen and all the others:

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/ek/coriolanus_5thcitizenetal_12.mp3

Characters separated by a short tone. I first read the whole list of roles "read by Availle" and then separately again before each character. Didn't know how you'd prefer it...

readbyme · Post by **readbyme** » October 2nd, 2011, 3:38 pm

Hello,

I would like to do Section 23, but I am confused about something. The Magic Window claims there are 26 lines, but the text shows the following:

SECOND CITIZEN 18
CITIZENS 17
ALL CITIZENS 1
ALL THE PEOPLE 1
ALL 16

Together that makes 53 lines. Am I looking at this wrong? I am new here and might be all sorts of confused by what I am seeing.

Thanks,

Peter

Kristingj · Post by **Kristingj** » October 3rd, 2011, 6:53 am

I'm a tad confused... I'm supposed to read "Roman/ALL", and it say's its 1.9. But in that scene there's only one line, and that's "ALL".

Kristin

gloriana · Post by **gloriana** » October 3rd, 2011, 9:44 am

Availle wrote:5th citizen and all the others:

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/ek/coriolanus_5thcitizenetal_12.mp3

Characters separated by a short tone. I first read the whole list of roles "read by Availle" and then separately again before each character. Didn't know how you'd prefer it...

Thanks, Ava! Sounds fine to me.

gloriana · Post by **gloriana** » October 3rd, 2011, 9:46 am

readbyme wrote:Hello,

I would like to do Section 23, but I am confused about something. The Magic Window claims there are 26 lines, but the text shows the following:

SECOND CITIZEN 18
CITIZENS 17
ALL CITIZENS 1
ALL THE PEOPLE 1
ALL 16

Together that makes 53 lines. Am I looking at this wrong? I am new here and might be all sorts of confused by what I am seeing.

Thanks,

Peter

Hi Peter, and welcome. I know, this project is a bit confusing. For this role I'm asking that the reader only read "All" in two scenes - they are marked after "All" in the magic window. So I think that's where the fewer number of lines comes in. Does that make sense? Let me know if it doesn't.

Also, we ask all our new volunteers to do a short test recording to make sure all the tech settings are okay - not as an audition. If you haven't done yours yet, please feel free to use one of these short roles for your test. You can post it to this thread and I can offer you some feedback on it. Sound good?

Finally, if you haven't yet been added to the catalog, let me know what name you'd like to be listed under in the catalog - it can be your forum name, your real name, or something different. thanks!

gloriana · Post by **gloriana** » October 3rd, 2011, 9:48 am

Kristingj wrote:I'm a tad confused... I'm supposed to read "Roman/ALL", and it say's its 1.9. But in that scene there's only one line, and that's "ALL".

Kristin

Hi Kristin -

Sorry for the confusion. to see the lines for "Roman," click on that heading in the Open Source Shakespeare and you will see all those lines. (Make sure to click "Show full lines.") But I'm also asking you to read the one line assigned to "All" in 1.9. You can read them all in one file, or two different files - it's up to you. Does that make sense?