[Complete] The Princess Zoubaroff by Ronald Firbank - dlo

Post by **Kitty** » June 15th, 2017, 11:38 am

thank you Vivian !!! Nice edits, this microphone is really paying off

Act 2 is now PL ok

...but in Act 3, it's really rather "honourable" than "honorary". I don't think the title is ever used for honorary, not to my knowledge. Would you mind re-reading the sentence one more time, please ? (sorry for being picky

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Sonia

Peter Why · Post by **Peter Why** » June 15th, 2017, 11:52 am

Vivian,
I've found the book on accents that I was looking for: How to do Accents; Edda Sharpe, Jan Haydn Rowles; pub Oberon books. It was produced in Britain, so the examples do tend to mainly consider British accents, but the advice on analysis of accents and how to say them seems to be more universal. It's definitely worth trying to get the book through your library to see if you want to buy it. To quote a fragment from the start of one chapter:

IN THIS CHAPTER ... you will learn all about rhoticity (and, no, that isn't a way of cooking a chicken). When it comes to accents, the world divides into two planets:

Rhotic - people who always say an R whenever it is written - ORDER MOTHER CART HERE.
Non-rhotic - people who only say an R if there is a vowel sound spoken after it - HARRY HERO BRING SACRED RIGHT

The authors have a sense of humour. The book is well illustrated with sectional diagrams of the vocal area to help pronunciation.

Peter

ChuckW · Post by **ChuckW** » June 20th, 2017, 7:29 pm

Remember when I said that Acts II and III would be significantly shorter?

Yeah... I might have been overstating things a bit.

https://librivox.org/uploads/dlolso21/princesszoubaroff_2_firbank_128kb.mp3 [45:25]

But at least it's finished.

Post by **Kitty** » June 21st, 2017, 1:22 am

yay !! Act 2 sounds great and is PL ok. If I had to say something, I think that Ava's lines are still a bit too soft, compared to the rest. I remember, I noted down she needed to be amplified a bit. It's probably ok for this Act, but maybe you could do that before you start on Act 3 with her lines ?

Looking forward to the finale

Sonia

ChuckW · Post by **ChuckW** » June 22nd, 2017, 4:58 pm

And here's Act III:

https://librivox.org/uploads/dlolso21/princesszoubaroff_3_firbank_128kb.mp3 [32:57]

You know, I honestly don't know how Firbank got away with all this. The innuendo is barely innuendo at certain points; the subtext skirts the edge of turning into plain old text at every moment. I mean... come on.

I also like how Orkish, Adrian, and Eric end up in weird remake of Three Men and a Baby at the end.

Post by **Kitty** » June 23rd, 2017, 12:56 am

ChuckW wrote:And here's Act III:
https://librivox.org/uploads/dlolso21/princesszoubaroff_3_firbank_128kb.mp3 [32:57]

excellent

this is PL ok now and that means the play can be archived

I see you let the "Honorary" pass, Chuck. Well, it probably doesn't matter in the end.

I also like how Orkish, Adrian, and Eric end up in weird remake of Three Men and a Baby at the end.

LOL yes it reminded me of that as well

A great addition to the LV Drama Section

Sonia

Post by **dlolso21** » June 23rd, 2017, 3:20 am

Post by **dlolso21** » June 23rd, 2017, 3:48 am

Thank you to EVERYONE (Sonia, Leanne, Tomas, Peter, Nick Bulka, Kay, Kalynda, Sandra, Ava, Beth, Thomas, Alan, Nemo, Eva, Vivian, Todd, and Chuck ) !!

This final volume is in the Librivox Catalog: https://librivox.org/the-princess-zoubaroff-by-ronald-firbank/

David O

ChuckW · Post by **ChuckW** » June 23rd, 2017, 5:02 am

Wow! So much happened while I was asleep!

Kitty wrote:
ChuckW wrote:And here's Act III:
https://librivox.org/uploads/dlolso21/princesszoubaroff_3_firbank_128kb.mp3 [32:57]
excellent this is PL ok now and that means the play can be archived I see you let the "Honorary" pass, Chuck. Well, it probably doesn't matter in the end.

Actually, I started editing both Acts II and III before waiting for the final PL... and then noticed your notes after I uploaded Act III! Whoops! Sorry! But I agree... it's not too noticeable and flies by pretty quickly.

Thanks again for the superlative PL work. Always a pleasure to work with you, Sonia!

And thanks for MC-ing, David.

And thank you EVERYONE for helping out! All of you really brought your A-game to this project. I'm thrilled to finally get this into the catalogue.

I'll probably launch another dramatic project in a week or so. I want to clear up some of my backlog before starting another play, so... yeah. Be on the lookout.