History of Arguable Consequence: The Undertold Stories of the American Civil War
beriedel for Female Narrator
Female Narrator ($15): Female/Young. North American/American, Yankee/Northern accent or light Southern accent; possibly a light Irish or Scottish accent. There is no particular character here, rather this role is strictly Narration. We need someone who can read slowly, clearly, and is a strong story-teller -- lyrical and full of expression, rather than a dispassionate third-party.
ABOUT THE ROLE: The Female Narrator will be narrating the story of Ann Manley, a Baltimore gang lord who saved a group of Yankee musicians from a mob of supporters of the Confederacy. We're looking for storytelling capabilities -- a strong but lyrical voice to take listeners through the tale.
Along with the Female Narrator, voice actress awarded this part will also be asked to perform lines for several other very minor characters (voice in a crowd).
The band of the Sixth Regiment that left Boston in April, 1861, consisted of twenty-four persons, who, together with their musical instruments, occupied a car by themselves from Philadelphia to Baltimore. By some accident, the musicians' car got switched off at the Canton Depot, so that, instead of being the first, it was left in the rear of all the others, and after the attack had been made by the mob upon the soldiers, they came upon the car in which the band was still sitting, wholly unarmed, and incapable of making any defense.
The Amazon directly proceeded to wash and bind up their wounds. After having done this, she procured them food, and then told them to strip off their uniforms, and put on the clothes she had brought them, a motley assortment of baize jackets, ragged coats, and old trousers. Thus equipped, they were enabled to go out in search of their companions, without danger of attack from the Plug Uglies and Blood Tubs, who had given them so rough a reception.
... this degraded woman took them under her protection, dressed their wounds, fed them at her own cost, and sent them back to safety to their homes. As she is too notorious in Baltimore not to be perfectly well known by what we have already told of her, it will not be exposing her to any persecution to mention her name. Ann Manley is the name by which she is known in the city of Blood Tubs, and the loyal men of the North, when they march again through its streets, should remember her for her humanity to their countrymen.
