The Foreigner

A Comedy by Larry Shue

The Director

Blaine Wilder

The Story

The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visited by “Froggy” LeSueur, 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 fiancée 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.

Cast

Froggy LeSueur: John Goroski
Charlie Baker: Scott Plotkin
Betty Meeks: JeAnna Wisher
Rev. David Marshall Lee: Peter Savkovich
Catherine Simms: Grace Miller
Liv Musser: Patty Thiel
Ellard Simms: Joshua Chandler

Place

Bigfork Center for the Performing Arts

Performances

February 20, 21, 27, 28 at 7:30 p.m.
February 22 and March 1 at 2:00 p.m.

Tickets

Bigfork Drug
At the door