[FULL drama] Makeshifts & Realities - Robins - ans

[eggs4ears]

Thanks! I wasn't sure what was intended there. Does it mean that his whole line should be:

'Go on...same again.... go on....same again', or, 'go on...same again.... same again' ?

5.18, bottom half p 15, omission
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027986366&seq=19
Go on … Same again … [Ditto repeato]

Yes, if they had a cellar, it would be delivered directly through the 'coal hole' somewhere in front of the house. We had no cellar, but we had a 'coal bunker' attached to the back of the house. The coalmen carried hundredweight sacks around the back of the house and emptied them into the bunker. I was just shocked at the idea of ordering half a ton of anything!

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Peter: Thank you so much, this is splendid. I *always* find it easier to jettison extra material than go back for something wanting, and I appreciate the markers.

Intro – First of all, I forgot to amend the first post, so you read what was there. In the intro, that included ‘Act One’. Makeshifts and Realities are both one-act plays that work well performed in sequence but can also be done separately, so I would like to cut the ‘Act One’. I don’t know which way you’d prefer. I’m quite willing to edit the existing file so you don’t have to do anything else (especially as I didn’t make that very clear), but if you want creative control of your own files then I fully understand.

2.55, bottom third p 10, omission
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027986366&seq=14
[A direction for Dolly] Still reading.

Outro – Please change to End of Makeshifts (sorry!)

In the second file, could you please add your own voice credit (Stage directions read by Peter)? I know you tend not to include it in your prose solos but I believe it’s LV custom to include it in dramas, and I think it’s usually done with each reader doing their own credit rather than a cast list read by a single voice.

Erin

Thanks Erin.
Will fix those things up.
May be a bit of down time as I have been stricken with lurgy which is affecting my voice and making me cough.
Peter

[Newgatenovelist]

Thanks Erin.
Will fix those things up.
May be a bit of down time as I have been stricken with lurgy which is affecting my voice and making me cough.
Peter

Please take your time. I want you to get better! Quite apart from that, you've caught me off guard on this project. It's been launched for less than a week and I was not expecting everyone to have jumped in so quickly. I'd much rather that you take all the time you need and come back when you're fighting fit. A few days or weeks won't make any difference to plays published in 1908.
Erin

[Newgatenovelist]

Thanks! I wasn't sure what was intended there. Does it mean that his whole line should be:

'Go on...same again.... go on....same again', or, 'go on...same again.... same again' ?

5.18, bottom half p 15, omission
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027986366&seq=19
Go on … Same again … [Ditto repeato]

Yes, if they had a cellar, it would be delivered directly through the 'coal hole' somewhere in front of the house. We had no cellar, but we had a 'coal bunker' attached to the back of the house. The coalmen carried hundredweight sacks around the back of the house and emptied them into the bunker. I was just shocked at the idea of ordering half a ton of anything!

The business bit first:
As I read it, Smythe says:
Go on ... Same again ... Ditto repeato.
That is:
Go on [italicised stage directions] Same again [italicised stage directions] Ditto repeato [italicised stage directions]
I take 'Ditto repeato' to be the kind of thing he would say because he thinks it's flash or funny. He's saying his slangy versions of 'yes please', just varying his phrasing, each time in response to being offered more sugar, as I read it.

A coal bunker! That's amazing! At the risk of us turning into Monty Python's four Yorkshiremen, I don't recall coal ever being burned in the fire, just wood, with its corresponding wood shed. Although you've also raised a very good point about how half a ton would be delivered (I mean, horses and carts), not just men offloading sacks. Was the measurement different and a ton didn't mean a ton as we think of it? Or was it really half a ton, given that they'd presumably need it to run the entire household, not just heating?

[Newgatenovelist]

I have a note apiece for Realities. I'd hand it over to you if this were your solo, but it isn't. I can get these when I'm assembling if you want, as these quick edits won't make much difference to me then, or if you like to do your own edits then that's also fine. Which would you prefer?

Mr. Thompson
4.33-4.34, penultimate Thompson p 35, false start
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027986366&seq=39
‘Ave you been up to s- ‘Ave you been up to see...


Mr. Smythe
4.54, omission, bottom p 34
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027986366&seq=38
‘As ‘e bit the end off? [‘As ‘e bit the end off?] Oh lor!

[eggs4ears]

Corrected files have been upload for Mr Smythe (Realities and Makeshifts) and Mr. T. (Realities). Sorry, I was being too clever for my own - it never occurred to me to just say the words 'ditto repeato', but yes, it does make sense that he would say that.

[Newgatenovelist]

Mr Smythe and Mr Thompson are PL OK. Thank you, this is going to be brilliant!

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Here is corrected file for narrator (Makeshifts).
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/makeshiftsrealities_narrator_1.mp3
Happy for you to cut the words "Act 1" in the intro.
Will include "Read by Peter Tucker" in the next file
Cheers
Peter

[Newgatenovelist]

Thank you very much, the narrator for Makeshifts is PL OK.
I hope you're feeling better!
Erin

[unreadpages]

Here is narrator part for Realities
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/makeshiftsrealities_narrator_2.mp3
5:46
Peter

[Newgatenovelist]

Here is narrator part for Realities
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/makeshiftsrealities_narrator_2.mp3
5:46
Peter

Thank you! I have one note for the stage directions for Realities:

4.17, bottom p 35, omission
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027986366&seq=39
[A direction for Mrs. Thompson] (Looking at clock)

Erin

[unreadpages]

Narrator v.2 uploaded
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/makeshiftsrealities_narrator_2.mp3
5:49
Peter

[Newgatenovelist]

Thank you, Peter. The stage directions for Realities are PL OK.
Erin