Cinderella: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Cinderella, credited to George Calderon, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Cinderella by George Calderon (1868 - 1915), published 1922. 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." 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: 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. (Summary by Ruth Golding) 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 Audio edited by Ruth Golding

Recording facts

• Recording title: Cinderella
• Author credits: George Calderon
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 1:34:07

Catalogue topics

• ibsen
• parody
• pantomime

Track guide

1. 00 - Dramatis Personae — 1:26
2. 01 - Act I — 38:29
3. 02 - Act II — 31:22
4. 03 - Act III — 22:50

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