Doing plays could be even more fun!

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote:

> yes yes yes.  and plays, please.  librivox is shockingly free of
> almost any multiperson literature.
>
> this should be a canonical type of scheduled fun; you can figure out
> how long it will take and parcel out parts so that people can
> familiarize themselves with the language.  If you split up the reading
> into a few separate segments, people who feel they should redo their
> bit can afterwards.
>
> SJ
> who loves a little one-action
>
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Pharos <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I'm now imagining staged readings of public domain literature as SFC
> > events and librivoxathons.
> >
> > It'll be awesome!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Richard
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 4:35 AM, Neville Bezzina
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Hi Alan; this is a very good idea. Thanks for suggesting it and bringing
> it
> >> to general attention. I used to be President of the Department of
> English
> >> Students Association a few months back so what the fledgling Malta shall
> be
> >> doing is work with the DESA guys to promote this, maybe we'll get some
> >> volunteers :) I'll keep you updated
> >>
> >> On 26 February 2011 14:51, C. Alaric Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Dear wondrous members o' yea olde Free Culture,
> >>>
> >>> So I was clicking around in the Libre project's list o' things, and
> found
> >>> the Gutenberg E-book (I call them Fre-ebooks and suggest you do too)
> project
> >>> is also in association with LibriVox. Librivox, as the link says,
> attempts
> >>> to make written material available in Audio format under a Creative
> Commons
> >>> un-license (more fun terminology, I've been reading too much Orwell).
> >>>
> >>> From what I understand these two organizations have an iPhone app that
> I
> >>> was introduced to (it's called Gutenberg), and blatantly the voices are
> >>> pretty terrible; four books were read by a child (as sweet as it sounds
> it
> >>> really detracts from the story when the reader asks how to say a word)
> and a
> >>> number of them by this (albeit awesome) very Texan sounding man.
> >>>
> >>> The reason I am telling you all about this may already be obvious, we
> >>> should all totally volunteer to read some books, or tell our friends
> that
> >>> are good at doing different voices and reading out loud that they could
> do
> >>> this. ("Hey [awesome friend], have you heard of this? Well you should,
> >>> because you could rock this and be an even awesomer person because of
> >>> it!")
> >>>
> >>> Well, that's all I have to say really. I hope you all have good
> >>> days/nights/weekends. I'm off to read some books out loud.
> >>> --
> >>> Respectfully,
> >>> Clarissa Alaric Moore
> >>> Chemistry and Biochemistry
> >>> University of Oklahoma
> >>>
> >>>
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