Inkell wrote: ↑March 22nd, 2024, 6:14 pm
Okay, thanks Todd, in that case:
Title and author: The Proposal by Anton Pavlovich Checkov
PD text link: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7986/pg7986-images.html#link2H_4_0003
Link to author on Wikipedia, and death date, if known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Chekhov died July 15th 1904
Link to title on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Marriage_Proposal
Number of roles (including narrator) this project will have: 4
Original publication date:1890
The list of characters in your plays so when we have a MW I can set up your sections properly!
Stage Directions
Stepan Stepanovitch Chubukov, a landowner
Natalya Stepanova, his daughter, twenty-five years old
Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov, a neighbor of Chubukov, a large and hearty, but very suspicious landowner
I will read the Stage Directions. I am also looking for a DPL for this so any volunteers are welcome
Thank you. All set up.
And being large and hearty, I took the role of Lomov
jennlea wrote: ↑March 21st, 2024, 6:17 pm
I would like to add the following one act to this collection.
Title: Matchmakers
Author: Annie Eliot Trumbull (1857-1949)
Text: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175035140188&seq=1
Author Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Eliot_Trumbull
Number of roles: 5
Original publication date: 1884
Characters:
-Mr. F. Harrington Courtenay, a banker
-Mr. Aaron Fitworth, a young man with a hobby (Note: is labeled as both Mr. F and Aaron in the script)
-Mrs. Evangeline Rodney, a designing widow
-Miss Henrietta White, Mrs. Rodney’s niece
-Stage Directions
I’d like to claim Henrietta.
I could take a shot at being a designing widow if you'd like?
AgnesRobert wrote: ↑March 23rd, 2024, 6:14 pm
are we saying the last name Courtenay as court-knee or as court--nay, I can find people saying both in different contexts
I’m not super picky with how names are pronounced as long as they said consistently throughout by each reader. With that said, I would say it court-knee in my own regional dialect.
AgnesRobert wrote: ↑March 23rd, 2024, 6:14 pm
are we saying the last name Courtenay as court-knee or as court--nay, I can find people saying both in different contexts
I’m not super picky with how names are pronounced as long as they said consistently throughout by each reader. With that said, I would say it court-knee in my own regional dialect.
I recorded my part yesterday (it's not ready yet though, still need to edit it) and I pronounced it 'court-EH-nay' because I had not seen that name with an 'e' in the middle (or seen it end in -nay rather than -ney) which also just felt natural for the voice I was giving to my character. Is this okay or will I need to start over?
AgnesRobert wrote: ↑March 23rd, 2024, 6:14 pm
are we saying the last name Courtenay as court-knee or as court--nay, I can find people saying both in different contexts
I’m not super picky with how names are pronounced as long as they said consistently throughout by each reader. With that said, I would say it court-knee in my own regional dialect.
I recorded my part yesterday (it's not ready yet though, still need to edit it) and I pronounced it 'court-EH-nay' because I had not seen that name with an 'e' in the middle (or seen it end in -nay rather than -ney) which also just felt natural for the voice I was giving to my character. Is this okay or will I need to start over?
Totally fine! I believe that is the French pronunciation of that name. So we will just say the designing widow is also worldly
