# Big Drum

An audiobook by Arthur Wing Pinero, read by LibriVox volunteers (4 h 28 min, English).

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…

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