The Big Drum: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Big Drum, credited to Arthur Wing Pinero, 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 The Big Drum by Arthur Wing Pinero. Read in English by a full cast. Another Pinero play. Biting satire this time, ironic comedy - not a farce. The Big Drum, a novel being written by Phil, one of the main characters, is "an attempt to portray the struggle for notoriety—for self-advertisement—we see going on around us to-day." "Oh, I believe any world would content me that's totally different from the world I've lived in so long; any world that isn't flat and stale and stifling; that isn't made up of shams, and petty aims and appetites; any world that—well, such a world as you used to picture, Phil, when you preached your gospel to a selfish, common girl under the chestnuts in the Allée de Longchamp and the Champs-Elysées! ... I've been waiting—waiting for you—in my dreams—for ten years! " - Summary by ToddHW NOTE: There is an Author's Preface. Because it contains spoilers, it has been put at the end of the Act 4 file. Cast list: Philip Mackworth: Nemo Sir Randle Filson, Knight: ToddHW Bertram Filson (his son): Tomas Peter Sir Timothy Barradell, Baronett: alanmapstone Robert Roope: Adrian Stephens Collingham Green: Larry Wilson Leonard Westrip (Sir Randle's secretary): Shashank Jakhmola Alfred Dunning (of Sillitoe and Dunning's Private Detective Agency): Son of the Exiles Noyes (Mr. Roope's servant): Steven Fellows Underwood (servant at Sir Randle's): KevinS John (Mr. Mackworth's servant): Devorah Allen Ottoline de Chaumié, Comtesse de Chaumié, née Filson: Eva Davis Lady Filson: Sonia Honourable Mrs. Godfrey Anslow: Leanne Yau Mrs. Walter Quebec: TJ Burns Miss Tracer (Lady Filson's secretary): Availle Stage Directions: MichaelMaggs Edited By: ToddHW

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Big Drum
• Author credits: Arthur Wing Pinero
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 6
• Listed recording duration: 4:28:23

Catalogue topics

• plays
• paris
• author
• past loves

Track guide

1. 01 - Act 1 — 55:15
2. 02 - Act 2, Part 1 — 38:01
3. 03 - Act 2, Part 2 — 41:27
4. 04 - Act 3, Part 1 — 42:58
5. 05 - Act 3, Part 2 — 43:08
6. 06 - Act 4 — 47:34

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