Prooflistening will be word perfect. This project is not accepting duplicate claims at this time. For consistency, please pronounce Grimesby Rylott and Stoke Moran as pronounced in the following YouTube video at 0:05 and 1:18 respectively:The Speckled Band: An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes is a three-act play adapted by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle from his similarly titled short story “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”. The short story was originally published in The Strand Magazine in February 1892 and it was more than eighteen years before Doyle wrote this stage version. It took Doyle only a week to write this play in May 1910. His rapid adaptation of the short story was motivated by the desire to quickly replace another of his plays, The House of Temperley. Like The Speckled Band, The House of Temperley is a dramatic adaptation of a work of fiction Doyle had previously written, in this case the boxing-themed Gothic mystery novel Rodney Stone. Despite having been produced at the Adelphi Theatre since the previous year, this boxing play failed suddenly due to the unexpected month-long closure of the theatre to mourn the death of Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom; although George V, the new king, issued a notice that theatres should only close for the day of the funeral in order to avoid undue financial hardship to those in that industry, many West End theatres closed for a month. Doyle had leased the Adelphi Theatre at his own expense and stood to suffer financially without a new play to premiere upon the theatre’s reopening. Consequently, Doyle swiftly wrote The Speckled Band and started rehearsals within a fortnight of the theatre’s closure. This new play achieved great success immediately upon the reopening of the theatre on June 4th. After enjoying a 169-performance run, The Speckled Band went on tour across Europe. Before the end of 1910, the play was produced in both Boston and New York in the United States. A film version appeared in 1931. (Summary by David Purdy)
https://youtu.be/jCLaFxgV_is?feature=shared
Jasna (Dulcamara) will be our DPL, prooflistening the stage directions and the completed files. Michele Eaton (wib66) who is reading the stage directions, will be our parts-PL for the rest of the files.
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012349044
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Magic Window:
BC Admin
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Genres for the project: Crime & Mystery Fiction/Detective Fiction; General Fiction/Published 1900 onward; Plays/Drama/Tragedy
Keywords that describe the book: inheritance, locked-room mystery, theatrical adaptation
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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
For individual roles:
Submit one file per act. At the beginning of the first file, say:
Leave 3-5 seconds of space between your lines (room noise, not generated silence)."Character, read by your name."
For narration/stage directions:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
Say:
At the end of each file say:"Act # of The Speckled Band: An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org."
If you are recording the final section of the book, add:"End of Act #."
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of The Speckled Band: An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle."
Filename:
For individual roles: speckledband_role_#.mp3 where # is the act number. (e.g. speckledband_watson_1.mp3)
For final files: speckledband_#_doyle_128kb.mp3 where # is the act number. (e.g. speckledband_1_doyle_128kb.mp3)
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MC to select: Rapunzelina
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