Audiolibro: Big Drum

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](https://librivox.org/reader/11535) Sir Randle Filson, Knight: [ToddHW](https://librivox.org/reader/6754) Bertram Filson (his son): [Tomas Peter](https://librivox.org/reader/10789) Sir Timothy Barradell, Baronett: [alanmapstone](https://librivox.org/reader/7170) Robert Roope: [Adrian Stephens](https://librivox.org/reader/13577) Collingham Green: [Larry Wilson](https://librivox.org/reader/8425) Leonard Westrip (Sir Randle's secretary): [Shashank Jakhmola](https://librivox.org/reader/13652) Alfred Dunning (of Sillitoe and Dunning's Private Detective Agency): [Son of the Exiles](https://librivox.org/reader/8879) Noyes (Mr. Roope's servant): [Steven Fellows](https://librivox.org/reader/13563) Underwood (servant at Sir Randle's): [KevinS](https://librivox.org/reader/13278) John (Mr. Mackworth's servant): [Devorah Allen](https://librivox.org/reader/11084) Ottoline de Chaumié, Comtesse de Chaumié, née Filson: [Eva Davis](https://librivox.org/reader/11417) Lady Filson: [Sonia](https://librivox.org/reader/10179) Honourable Mrs. Godfrey Anslow: [Leanne Yau](https://librivox.org/reader/10614) Mrs. Walter Quebec: [TJ Burns](https://librivox.org/reader/11790) Miss Tracer (Lady Filson's secretary): [Availle](https://librivox.org/reader/4174) Stage Directions: [MichaelMaggs](https://librivox.org/reader/12075) Edited By: [ToddHW](https://librivox.org/reader/6754)