Hey Kevin/Don,

Yeh, in retrospect an essay wasn't the best idea. You went good cop, I clearly went bad, and you managed to pique someone's interest so there we go! I gotta say that shift key's pretty damn useful, up there with the control key and letter F as one of my fave's, no idea how you survived without it Kevin.

Here you go Don - https://www.facebook.com/groups/408704702532488/ you may have to get added to the group to view it, so if you try to join it I'm sure one of us will accept the request.

And yeh, definitely get it up here! We've only got one volunteer thus far so we'd definitely need some more potential actors. Where do you reckon it's best kept on the site, around the general discussion forum? And totally get it onto the newsletter, any help we can get to get this beast to fly is much appreciated (both on acting front and script selection).

Script wise, given we've only got one person thus far from an acting perspective, we're probably best for the first one to stick to one with fewer characters than a full ensemble cast, just to get to grips with it. I'll trawl around the site to see what's out there, but if anyone's read anything good that fits the bill then let me know.

I have not done these, so I am not speaking from experience, but I suspect you don't want too many readers on any one script. Especially given how buggy skype can be. So you don't want to get a separate reader for each character.

Also, if there are actors, they probably want to practice cold reads.

Different ways you could break it up. You could have a main reader who does all the smaller parts, and another reader do the protagonist.

Sorry, I won't volunteer to read. I suck. I can't even read my own writing very convincingly.

I can volunteer for a read but keep in mind that I have a huuuuge accent (it's a mix of mediteranean/russian) and as I'm in Baku, Azerbaijan there's a substantial time difference. However, I'm available if it's done mornings or even aternoons before 12 am.

Are you sure you need actors for it though? I thought it's best when done in impatial voice - this way you can see much more. That's how we table read the plays anyway. There was some discussion about it on FB, in that group but I don't remember how it ended. Some said table reads for plays were different to screenplay reads as reads for plays were done for the actors.
But I'm still not sure if you benefit from it read by actors. Actors can make a lot of bad dialog work - and that's the problem.

Anyway, I've done some acting in the past, so please consider me as well. Now I have to figure out how to register for this thing. I used to be in Kevin's group - I remember that very well.

Hey Kham,

Sorry, my folks are in town so I haven't had a chance to reply properly yet.

You're definitely down on my list of actors (we need a few)!! No worries at all about the accent, that sounds like a cool mix anyway so it should be an asset rather than anything negative, and I'm sure it's better than my mad Scottish one. And yeh, as Don said a few posts back about getting anyone involved from around here, if anyone fancies it then stick your hand up, no previous acting experience necessary.

I'm going to be scouring the forums tonight and tomorrow, and by the end of the weekend should have hopefully approached some folk about scripts. From then on comes the challenge of figuring out how it'll work, but really appreciate you offering your services.

Cheers Khamanna!

Cam

If you want me, then count me in for the special jobs when you once need a German accent in English or German in native tongue.

Possibly in English, if you don't find an exact match for some accents, I also could jump in for a Dutch, Dane, Pole, Austrian and other neighboring countries. This won't be high quality or fully authentic, I believe even laughable to some degree, but possibly I got a better feeling how they rudimentarily speak in English because they're neighboring countries.

So, as said, special jobs only.

Hey Alexander,

Cheers mate, bang on, you're down on the list. I doubt anyone outside of the specific countries named would find an impersonation of their fine accents funny, and tbh your accent's gotta be better than some of the Hollywood actors and their attempts at European accents whilst speaking English (even Russell Crowe in bloody Robin Hood, and English is his first language).

Really appreciate it.

Cam