Character info
Here's some basic character information that will help you to decide which parts you'd like to audition for. The character info includes a brief description of the role including any required accents. The description also gives you an idea of the size of the role - Jeffrey has the largest part (pardon the pun) and the majority of the main characters are mid size. There are a few smaller and cameo roles.
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Gladys Pugh
Female • Playing age: 30s •
Medium sized part 182 lines •
Accent: South Wales
Chief yellowcoat. Smitten with Jeffrey Fairbrother. Strong character actress and excellent comic timing.
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Peggy Ollerenshaw
Female • Playing age: 30s •
Medium sized part 151 lines • Accent: Lancashire
Peggy is one of life’s triers. She longs to be a yellowcoat. Dependable, scatty, likeable and loyal.
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Jeffrey Fairbrother
Male • Playing age: 40s •
Large sized part 331 lines •
Accent: Well spoken/posh
The new camp entertainments manager. Jeffrey is totally out of his depth. Uptight, awkward, posh, straight laced. Educated at Cambridge University.
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Ted Bovis
Male • Playing age: 40s to 50s • Medium sized part 168 lines • Accent: Yorkshire
The camp compere. Brash, loud, cocky. Still believes he can make it big in the industry and can’t accept Maplin's is the best that he will do. He is also dodgy (ripping off the campers) and is Spike’s mentor.
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Spike Dixon
Male • Playing age: 20s to 30s • Small sized part 71 lines •
Accent: N/A
The camp’s trainee comic. Visual comedy such as dressing up, anything to get a laugh. Energetic and nice bloke, naïve and kind hearted. His comedy always fails to get a laugh.
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Fred Quilly
Male • Playing age: 50 to 70 •
Small sized part 62 lines •
Accent: East End
Ex-jockey, now horse riding instructor. He loves his ‘orses and will do anything for them. Small, lean man. He has a constant battles with his ‘room mate’ Mr Partridge.
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Mr Partridge
Male • Playing age: 60 to 70 • Medium sized part 182 lines • Accent: N/A
Miserable, vulgar old man who is the camp’s Punch and Judy performer (and hates kids!) Always moaning and swearing and does not want to be there. An alcoholic who shares a room with Fred.
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Yvonne Stuart-Hargreaves
Female • Playing age: 40 to 60 •
Small sized part 58 lines •
Accent: Well spoken
Prim and proper. Yvonne is a ballroom dancer who feels Maplin’s is totally beneath her (along with anybody who works there, including her husband, Barry). Moody and ungrateful.
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Barry Stuart-Hargreaves
Male • Playing age: 40 to 60 •
Small sized part 66 lines •
Accent: Well spoken
Hen pecked husband of Yvonne, wimpy, brow beaten and spineless. Occasionally speaks up against Yvonne but is soon put down again. Slightly, but not overtly camp.
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Sylvia Garnsey
Female • Playing age: 20s to 30s •
Very small sized part 17 lines •
Accent: Cockney
Sylvia is the flirty, sexy, ambitious yellowcoat and very much the thorn in Gladys’ side. Gladys deems her lazy, loose and inclined to have her hands in her pockets. She’s nice one minute and then not the next.
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Betty
Female • Playing age: 20s •
Very small sized part 10 lines •
Accent: N/A
Yellowcoat, sporty, drama school graduate and a qualified swimming instructor.
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Tracy
Female • Playing age: 20s •
Very small sized part 7 lines •
Accent: N/A
Yellowcoat, former tennis club champion. Sporty and flirty.
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Dawn
Female • Playing age: 20s •
Very small part 6 lines •
Accent: N/A
Popular yellowcoat. Often clashes with Gladys over her habit of pouting.
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Hilary Bovis
Female • Playing age: 30 to 50 •
Small sized part 42 lines •
Accent: Yorkshire
Ex-wife of Ted. A tyrant of a woman. Very forceful.
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Bailiff
Male • Playing age: 20+ •
Very small sized part 2 lines •
Accent: N/A
Bailiff arrives with Hilary in order to ensure Ted pays up the debts. Bailiff and Pritchard could be played by the same actor.
80s classic
Hi-de-Hi! is a BBC sitcom, shown on BBC1 from 1 January 1980 to 30 January 1988.
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Pritchard
Male • Playing age: 20s to 30s •
Small sized part 36 lines •
Accent: Cockney
Pritchard is menacing and is besotted with Gladys. Bailiff and Pritchard could be played by the same actor.
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Gary
Male • Playing age: 20s •
No lines • Accent: N/A
He’s vain and obsessed with both women and his appearance.
Hi-De-Hi!
The title was the greeting the campers heard and in early episodes was written Hi de Hi. The series revolved around the lives of the camp's entertainers, most of whom were struggling actors and has-beens
Set in 1959/60
Set in 1959 and 1960 in Maplins, a fictional holiday camp, the show was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft who also wrote Dad's Army.