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Voice Actors Needed for Bitchin’ Plato Christmas Play

December 7, 2012 by Mark Linsenmayer 12 Comments

I'll let the cat out of the bag now that our planned reading for ep. 69 will be Plato's dialogue "Gorgias."

I have in mind to record a full-cast audio version of this (there are 5 speaking parts) and am looking for some folks (men or women; I don't care that they're all dudes in the dialogue) who might want to read it with me over a Skype call.

This means that in addition to having a reasonably nice, clearly articulating voice, you'd need to have a reasonably decent recording setup, meaning you have at least purposely bought some sort of mic, or actually the built-in laptop mics on macs sound fine if your face is close enough to them.

If you're interested, get the dialogue and record yourself reading for maybe 30 seconds, then send me an mp3 or whatever as an email attachment at mark@partiallyexaminedlife.com so I can hear both your voice and your recording setup. As soon as I get enough people that can schedule something together, we'll go ahead and do it. Whether it ends up as another goodie for members, or for sale to the public, or free to the public, will largely be a matter of how well it comes out.

-Mark Linsenmayer

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  1. Daniel Horne says

    December 7, 2012 at 1:39 am

    You’re really going to pass up the opportunity to gather the crew and make this an American Idol moment? Now, that would be a Google Hangout worth viewing. America’s Got Rhetoric!

    Reply
    • Mark Linsenmayer says

      December 7, 2012 at 9:37 am

      I asked the guys about doing this first, and they did not seem interested. Having YOU on board, however, would be a coup.

      Reply
      • Seth Paskin says

        December 7, 2012 at 4:56 pm

        I wasn’t asked – I’m in!

        Reply
        • Mark Linsenmayer says

          December 7, 2012 at 5:12 pm

          Translation: “Mark sends me too many emails and I didn’t read this one.”

          Reply
  2. RW says

    December 10, 2012 at 3:26 pm

    I saw the title of this entry and started hoping for a Platonist version of the traditional Christmas play…

    Reply
  3. Laura says

    December 10, 2012 at 9:32 pm

    OkaY I’ll Give it a shot and I’ll send you sample recording. Hope you don’t mind dogs in the background. Actually they could be my Greek chorus. Hehe.

    Reply
    • Mark Linsenmayer says

      December 11, 2012 at 12:16 am

      Sorry, Laura, you’ve weighed in too late. The thing has been cast, and we just spent like 2 hours recording the first half of the dialogue.

      The rest is just going to be me and Dylan scrapping, should we have the stamina to finish it.

      Thanks to all who submitted!

      Reply
  4. Laura says

    December 11, 2012 at 9:21 pm

    Oh bummer. But I bet it will be great! The great debate of the rhetorician vs the philosopher! Who’s playing Socrates?

    Reply
    • Mark Linsenmayer says

      December 12, 2012 at 11:36 am

      Why, I’ll let that be a surprise. Hint: it was not Mel Gibson.

      Reply
      • Daniel Horne says

        December 12, 2012 at 1:53 pm

        Whoa, you got Danny Glover to play Socrates?

        Reply
        • Frtiz Donaro says

          December 12, 2012 at 2:17 pm

          That’s funny because I was actually going to suggest they get an older black actor to play Socrates, for real. There was this old black man from back-n-the-day with a white as snow beard that came to mind and I don’t know his name. I actually tried finding him online but no luck. But he’s dead I’m sure. Glover’s voice doesn’t seem right for Socrates. lol.

          Reply
      • Laura says

        December 12, 2012 at 8:36 pm

        Good. Oh, William Shatner then?

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