{"id":1998,"date":"2021-01-31T16:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2021-01-31T20:55:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T20:55:17","slug":"play-read-moon-over-buffalo-by-ken-ludwig-2-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/?p=1998","title":{"rendered":"February Play Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2001 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/video-conference-5314869_1280.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/video-conference-5314869_1280.png 1280w, https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/video-conference-5314869_1280-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/video-conference-5314869_1280-1024x791.png 1024w, https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/video-conference-5314869_1280-768x593.png 768w, https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/video-conference-5314869_1280-750x579.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>February Play Read<\/span><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">We love having you take part in our play reads!<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This is an ONLINE event on Tuesday, February 2 at 7pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By popular demand, we&#8217;ll continue to read a selection fo radio plays. This month, we&#8217;ll read:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><i>Candy Matson, Yukon 2-8209: The Egyptian Amulet\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">San Francisco tried in the mid-to-late 1940s to be a radio town and the most popular show on the airwaves\u00a0featured a hard-boiled, gun-toting private eye who took on the bad guys and talked tough. What made this detective unique?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The Detective was a woman!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><i>The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: The Medium Was Rare<\/i><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&#8220;Get this and get it straight: Crime is a sucker&#8217;s road and those who travel it wind up in the gutter, the prison, or the grave.&#8221;<br \/>\nHard-boiled detectives are unsentimental about the violence they face, but few could take it or dish it out like Marlow. Behind the snappy come-backs and hard-drinking was a philosophical and contemplative man who was rarely fooled by the &#8220;Dames&#8221; he encountered.<\/p>\n<p>Bedford Players&#8217; play reads are an informal, fun gathering where everyone is welcome.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This is not an audition<\/strong><\/em>; there is no cost or obligation to participate.\u00a0 The event is open to everyone interested in reading this script as a group in a social setting. No experience necessary!<\/p>\n<p>You can take part or just listen as others use their voices to bring these shows to life.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">To participate, please pre-register by noon on February 2nd by emailing <a href=\"mailto:president@bedfordplayers.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">president@<wbr \/>bedfordplayers.ca<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">February Play Read<\/span> We love having you take part in our play reads! <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This is an ONLINE event on Tuesday, February 2 at 7pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By popular demand, we&#8217;ll continue to read a selection fo radio plays. This month, we&#8217;ll read:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Candy Matson, Yukon 2-8209: The Egyptian &hellip; <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/?p=1998\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}