Broadening horizons

A few years back I discovered Project Gutenberg. This is a stunning resource to make the great works of literature that are in the public domain available as an electronic resource.

The actor/director in me loves this site as you can download everything from Shakespeare to Wilde and negate the cost of purchasing the scripts for your company.

But yesterday I discovered a ‘sister’ project in LibriVox.

Here, they are converting these public domain works into public domain audio books!

I have downloaded a couple and have now volunteered to act as a reader.

Reading other’s works enhances your own. And as a playwright it is essential to ensure that you get the spoken work right for each of your characters. This will prove to be a wonderful opportunity for me to grow as each author/playwright writes with a different voice, and this will enable me to hear it first hand as I record their works for them.

I’m really looking forward to this!