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As I mentioned briefly, I think the readthrough of Love's Labour's Lost last weekend went pretty well, so I'm going to organise another this weekend. This time of a couple of radio play adaptations of Neil Gaiman stories, Stardust and "How the Marquis got his Coat Back"
If you are theoretically interested in this kind of socialising but nervous because you've never done it before, you are welcome to come and just watch/listen, or ask for a very small part to dip your toe in the water (but also just to jump straight in if you prefer - it's all very friendly and low pressure).
Okay, so Stardust is a fairytale in two episodes each about an hour long. There's a partial list of characters on wikipedia but it's inexplicably missing the best part (which is obviously Captain Shakespeare). There's a more detailed list on TV Tropes but consider yourself warned for a)spoilers, and b)falling into a TV Tropes hole...
How the Marquis Got His Coat Back is a short (about 45m) sequel to Neverwhere, staring the Marquis de Carabas. There's a list of characters here, but I haven't been able to find much more detail about who they are, although some of them will be familiar if you've read/seen/listened to Neverwhere.
These being radio scripts, they've got quite a lot of sound effects written in. If you would be interested in being in charge of making sound effects, either in addition to or instead of having a part(s) to play, then that would be useful info. Other things that would be useful to know are:
- if you would like to come for just Stardust or just How the Marquis Got His Coat Back
- particular parts you would or would not like to play
- types of parts you like or dislike (e.g. funny/serious, good/evil/ambiguous, clever/not-so-clever, gender, age, class, with distinctive accents, who sing &c &c)
- how much you would like to have to do, and preferences between multiple small parts vs one larger one)
- anything else you think might be relevant
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I would like to be in this readthrough...
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...so please cast me. I will tell you about part preferences in the comments.
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...but can't make it this time. Have fun!
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If you are theoretically interested in this kind of socialising but nervous because you've never done it before, you are welcome to come and just watch/listen, or ask for a very small part to dip your toe in the water (but also just to jump straight in if you prefer - it's all very friendly and low pressure).
Okay, so Stardust is a fairytale in two episodes each about an hour long. There's a partial list of characters on wikipedia but it's inexplicably missing the best part (which is obviously Captain Shakespeare). There's a more detailed list on TV Tropes but consider yourself warned for a)spoilers, and b)falling into a TV Tropes hole...
How the Marquis Got His Coat Back is a short (about 45m) sequel to Neverwhere, staring the Marquis de Carabas. There's a list of characters here, but I haven't been able to find much more detail about who they are, although some of them will be familiar if you've read/seen/listened to Neverwhere.
These being radio scripts, they've got quite a lot of sound effects written in. If you would be interested in being in charge of making sound effects, either in addition to or instead of having a part(s) to play, then that would be useful info. Other things that would be useful to know are:
- if you would like to come for just Stardust or just How the Marquis Got His Coat Back
- particular parts you would or would not like to play
- types of parts you like or dislike (e.g. funny/serious, good/evil/ambiguous, clever/not-so-clever, gender, age, class, with distinctive accents, who sing &c &c)
- how much you would like to have to do, and preferences between multiple small parts vs one larger one)
- anything else you think might be relevant
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Date: 2020-03-25 10:55 pm (UTC)From:All this assumes that I can use my minimal tech skills to get online either on my phone or my work laptop, which is much cleverer thank anything I own.
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Date: 2020-03-26 03:49 am (UTC)From:I've just turned off the Attention Tracking feature, so it can't be used if other people host meetings from my account. I'm the only admin on the account, and have no interest in violating anyone's privacy, but will add a disclaimer to future logistics posts that people should only join if they're comfortable with me having the theoretical ability to do so.
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Date: 2020-03-26 07:56 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2020-03-26 10:10 pm (UTC)From:I like distinctive parts I can throw myself into, either big or small, but I think in Neverwhere that's ALL of the parts so any should be fine (but I've not actually seen it, if I can I'll have a look to see if I can find some clips to see what the characters are like before Sat).
I'm happy to play any gender but typically less able to act women.
Hopefully see you then.
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Date: 2020-03-26 10:54 pm (UTC)From:I generally prefer not to use recordings for sound effects - I find that either voices or nothing work better. I am quite happy to squeak like a mouse, creak like a door, chirrup like a bird etc. but not if it means I get a less good acting part!
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Date: 2020-03-27 04:55 pm (UTC)From:Liz S