{"id":3477,"date":"2026-11-13T12:45:50","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T12:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2026-11-13T13:00:38","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T13:00:38","slug":"audition-notice-suite-surrender-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/?p=3477","title":{"rendered":"Audition Notice &#8211; Self Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Self Help<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>By Norm Foster<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Directed by Lorraine Cantwell<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Auditions will be held on:<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Monday, November 23 from 6:30pm &#8211; 9pm<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Thursday, November 26 from 6:30pm &#8211; 9pm<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at Bedford Players Theatre, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1408 Bedford Highway, Bedford<\/span><\/p>\n<div><b>About the Play<\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meet Hal and Cindy Savage, a married pair of second-rate theatre actors who cast themselves as nationally renowned self-help gurus. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Self Help<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a farce about the compromises we make for survival and comfort and the things we lose along the way as we make our life decisions. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Audition Details<\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No Preparation required. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Selections from the script will be provided for a cold read style audition \u2014 no prepared monologue needed. Individual auditions will begin at 6:30pm at their scheduled time as per the online registration link below.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are not able to complete the online registration, we will entertain walk-in auditions starting at 8:30pm on the selected audition dates. Actors are asked to arrive at 8:15pm to complete the audition form and will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All experience levels are welcome!<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Please sign up for your preferred audition date by completing the online audition form<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/form.jotform.com\/261995613939070\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>SIGN UP HERE<\/b><\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/form.jotform.com\/261995613939070\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>https:\/\/form.jotform.com\/261995613939070<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Rehearsal Schedule<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0 <\/span>Sundays, Mondays &amp; Thursdays 7:00 &#8211; 10:00 PM<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/search\/1408+Bedford+Hwy?entry=gmail&amp;source=g\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1408 Bedford Hwy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, beginning Sunday, November 29th.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Performances<\/strong>:\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Actors must commit to 11 performances; Thursday &#8211; Sunday from MAR 4 &#8211; 20, with an additional preview performance on Tuesday, MAR 2nd.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><b>Character Breakdown &#8211; 6 Roles Available (non-union, volunteer)<\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><b>Cindy Savage (Age: 30\u201350)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: a former actress who tries to revive her fading career by adopting a new persona as a self-help, motivational speaker. Cindy is charming, ambitious, confident, dramatic, and energetic and she is able to seamlessly shift between her polished, public icon image and a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Hal Savage (Age: 30\u201350)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Cindy\u2019s husband and former stage partner throughout their many years together. Like his wife, he presents as charming, calm, and polished, but he is also pretentious, affected, and very easily flustered. Hal is a bundle of neuroses, and he plays it with barely-controlled, theatrical panic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Ruby Delvecchio (Age: 40\u201360)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: the bossy, no-nonsense business agent for Cindy and Hal. She is tough as nails, practical, and has absolutely no filter. She talks fast and authoritatively, and is totally focused on trying to hold the Savage\u2019s self-help empire together. She is intelligent and worldly-wise, but can be tricked by those even more desperate than herself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Bernice (Age: 18\u201330)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The scatterbrained, naive, and absent-minded housemaid for the Savages. Bernice innocently and perpetually misinterprets pretty much everything that happens to anyone and everyone due to her consistently literal interpretation of the chaos that is happening all around her. Her attempts to cope adds greatly to the overall comedy of the play as she never seems to \u201ccatch on\u201d, but also, never gives up trying to.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Detective Snow (Age: 40\u201360)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Snow is a disillusioned, seasoned police investigator who remains unimpressed with the Savage celebrity status and who serves to steady the manic energy of Cindy and Hal. He delivers his observant and dryly humorous insights in a deadpan manner, which nonetheless also adds greatly to the dichotomy of punchlines and panic. And one discovers there is more to the detective than initially meets the eye.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Jeremy Cash (Age: 25\u201340)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Jeremy is an ambitious and outrageously nosy investigative reporter who is determined to dig up any dirt he can to bring the Savage empire down just to get that \u201cbig story\u201d and laud and glory for himself. He is high energy, relentless, and most certainly not to be trusted. Jeremy is not a guy who would ever be tormented by sacrificing the needs of another against his own wants. <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><strong>Note from the director<\/strong>: <b><i>Please come prepared to play with high stakes and fast-paced farcical energy!<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><strong>PRE-BOOK YOUR AUDITION SPOT HERE<\/strong>: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/form.jotform.com\/261995613939070\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/form.jotform.com\/261995613939070<\/a><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Questions? Unable to make it on November 23rd or 26th but still want to audition?\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Email the director at <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">director2@bedfordplayers.ca<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><b>Bedford Players Community Theatre<\/b> is a not-for-profit community organization that operates on a volunteer basis. All participants are volunteers, and their time, skills, and efforts are offered with no compensation. We appreciate all our volunteers and could do nothing without them!<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<h5><i><strong>SELF-HELP<\/strong> is staged by arrangement with Pam Winter, GGA, www.ggagency.ca<\/i><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self Help <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By Norm Foster<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Directed by Lorraine Cantwell<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Auditions will be held on:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Monday, November 23 from 6:30pm &#8211; 9pm<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thursday, November 26 from 6:30pm &#8211; 9pm<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at Bedford Players Theatre, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1408 Bedford Highway, &hellip; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/?p=3477\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-fp","category-news","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","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=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3487,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions\/3487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedfordplayers.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}