The Merry Beggars Audiobooks

A warm, intelligent storyteller with youthful energy, credible as an adult Jim Hawkins recalling the adventures of his youth, with exceptional range to distinguish sailors, pirates, and gentlemen without becoming overly theatrical or cartoonish. Actor must have own studio for self-recording.

Celebrity comps: Tom Holland. Benedict Cumberbatch. Chiwetel Ejiofor. Robert Downey Jr. Young Brendan Fraser.

The novel is narrated by Sieur Louis de Conte, Joan’s childhood companion and page, writing in his old age and looking back on the extraordinary life of his friend with reverence, warmth, and wonder. Actor must have own studio for self-recording.‍

Celebrity comps: Lucas Bravo. Vincent Cassel. Jake Gyllenhaal.

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Neutral British accent preferred, 30s–50s, with audiobook experience. Must have own studio for self-recording. Able to hold the warm, direct voice of an adult telling stories to a child, and to distinguish a very large cast of characters across twenty plays: kings and clowns, lovers and murderers, men and women, young and old. Much of Shakespeare’s own language survives intact inside the Lambs’ prose, so the actor must be comfortable landing verse rhythm and Elizabethan syntax. Celebrity comps (female): Rosamund Pike, Juliet Stevenson, Jennifer Ehle, Josette Simon

Project Word Count: 52,272 words (Female narrator, 10 tales)

Neutral British accent preferred, 30s–50s, with audiobook experience. Must have own studio for self-recording. Able to hold the warm, direct voice of an adult telling stories to a child, and to distinguish a very large cast of characters across twenty plays: kings and clowns, lovers and murderers, men and women, young and old. Much of Shakespeare’s own language survives intact inside the Lambs’ prose, so the actor must be comfortable landing verse rhythm and Elizabethan syntax. Celebrity comps (male): Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, Adrian Lester, Ben Whishaw

Project Word Count: 48,696 words (male narrator, 10 tales)