Audition for BDC's Evening of Tom Stoppard

Name: Audition for BDC's Evening of Tom Stoppard
Start: 2025-10-05T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-05T18:00:00+01:00
Location: The Place Theatre

Schedule

Sun Oct 05 2025 at 02:00 pm to 06:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

The Place Theatre | Bedford, EN

AUDITIONS: SUNDAY, 5TH OCTOBER 2PM-6PM !
More details, including character descriptions, will be available in the near future.
If you would like to be involved with this production but are unable to attend on one or the other Sunday, please let us know and Marian (the Director) will contact you.
Rehearsals will commence on Tuesday 28th October and will be every Tuesday and Thursday (with a break for the Christmas festivities).
Depending on cast availability, the plan will be to rehearse one play on Tuesdays and the other on Thursdays until Christmas. In the New Year cast may be called on both nights.
The Real Inspector Hound:
A one act play – duration appx 1 hour.
Moon and Birdboot, two drama critics, arrive to watch the performance of a new detective play, a parody of the conventional stage thriller. However the private lives of the critics become inextricably mixed with those of the play’s characters until Moon is shot dead and the real Inspector Hound proves to be … ?
Cast 8 speaking roles, 1 non-speaking role

If You’re Glad I’ll Be Frank:
A one act play – duration appx 30 mins
Originally written as a radio play which can be adapted for stage use.
To his astonishment Frank, a bus driver, recognises the voice of the GPO speaking clock as that of his long-lost wife. Determined to get her back, he forces his way into the inner sanctum of the Authorities to demand her release. She, meanwhile, still loving him, is almost broken by her never-ending recitation. Underlying the light-hearted story is a satiric comment on man’s servitude to the clock; and a reminder that Time itself is independent of the tick-tock of the clock.
Cast: 11/12 speaking roles