Cinderella - Audiobook by George Calderon

CINDERELLA
By George Calderon
Audiobook read by Librivox Volunteers
Genre: Humorous Fiction
George Leslie Calderon (1868 - 1915) was an English writer. He was one of the most knowledgeable Englishmen of his generation about Russian life and literature. He was a playwright and translator , notably of Anton Chekhov, whom he was instrumental in introducing to English theatre. In 1914 he enlisted in the British army at the age of 45, and died at Galipoli the following year.
If you are expecting glass slippers and pumpkin coaches, look elsewhere... This is "a pantomime as Ibsen would have written it, if only it had occurred to him to write one."
Set on a "bleak and cheerless heath overlooking the fjord" we meet Ibsenesque heroine Mrs. Inquest, her step-daughter Hilda, and her daughter Hedda, who is engaged to be married to the unfortunate Tesman. Thus begins Calderon's hilarious Ibsenesque version of Cinderella.
NOTE from the editor of the volume, published in 1922 after Calderon's death: This play is hardly more than a rough draft, written when the idea was fresh and put aside to be worked on when the right moment should come. Unhappily it never came; but even in its present form the play has seemed too characteristic of its author to be lost, and it is therefore printed as it stands.
Devotees of Ibsen will recognise many names and references, but may not appreciate Calderon's irreverent parody of the master's work. People who know but do not like Ibsen may well find it very funny.
Index:
00 - 00:00:00 - Dramatis Personae
01 - 00:01:26 - Act I
02 - 00:39:55 - Act II
03 - 01:11:17 - Act III
Additional information:
This audiobook is from Librivox. All Librivox recordings are in the public domain.
Running time: 01:34:07
Book Coordinator: Ruth Golding
Meta Coordinator: Ruth Golding
Proof Listener: TriciaG
Cast list
Mrs. Inquest: Ruth Golding
Hedda, her daughter, a distinguished fashionable person: TriciaG
Hilda, her stepdaughter: Helen Taylor
Madam Helseth, her servant: Xe Sands
Aunt Judy, her sister: Maria Kasper
Mopsyman, Aunt Judy's dog: Clara Snyder
Stockfish: mb
Tesman, his son (Acts I and II): David Barnes
Tesman (Act III): Ian King
A Demon: icyjumbo
A Fairy: Lucy Perry
A Hired Waiter: Ezwa
An Italian Waiter: Laurie Anne Walden
A German Waiter: Robert Steiner
A Chamberlain: Zames Curran
Stage directions and sound effects: David Lawrence
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