Play explores start of Alcoholics Anonymous
" Jim thinks back to that life-changing day in a Toronto park: Homeless, penniless and junked up on drugs, he begged someone for a quarter and stumbled to the nearest pay phone.
He phoned the one relative — a sister — he thought would answer his call.
“Please help me. I’m dying in a park,” said Jim, who was then emaciated, dehydrated and jaundiced.
After about 20 years of abusing alcohol, cocaine and various street drugs, which derailed an illustrious career as a theatre performer, Jim had a moment of clarity. Or, as he puts it: “I surrendered. I let go and asked for help.”
“Come and get me,” he told his sister, before passing out on a park bench.
He woke up in a treatment facility started on a road to recovery that eventually led to Renascent (***), an addiction treatment centre, where the 45-year-old now works as a counselor.
Memories of his downward spiral into addiction and the phone call that helped save Jim’s life have helped him prepare for his performance in Bill W. and Dr. Bob, an off-Broadway play about the co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)." ...
A scene from the second act of "Bill W. and Dr. Bob"
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