"The Foreigner" (Comedy) By Larry Shue- Based on what the New York Post describes
as a devilishly clever idea, the play demonstrates what can happen when a group
of devious characters must deal with a stranger who (they think) knows no English.
The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visited by Froggie LeSeuer,
a British demolition expert who occasionally runs training sessions at a nearby army
base. This time Froggy has brought along a friend, a pathologically shy young
man named Charlie who is overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation
with strangers. So, Froggy , before departing, tells all assembled that Charlie
is from an exotic foreign country and speaks no English. Once alone the fun really
begins, as Charlie overhears more than he should the evil plans of a sinister,
two-faced minister and his redneck associate, the fact that the minister s pretty
finance is pregnant; and many other damaging revelations made with the thought that
Charlie doesn t understand a word being said. That he does fuels the nonstop hilarity
of the play and sets up the wildly funny climax in which things go uproariously awry
for the bad guys, and the good guys emerge triumphant.
Sgt. Froggy LeSueur - David Piner
Charlie Baker - Cameron Williams
Betty Meeks - Carolyn Hooper
Rev. David Marshall Lee - Matthew Graunke
Catherine Simms - Holly Bostick
Stage Manager - Meredith Whitworth
Set Construction - Tim Moore
Lighting Designer - Allen Tyndall
Costumes - Sylvia Tyndall
Property Mistress - Velna Pollock