Our 28th Season
THE FOREIGNER
The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia where "Froggy" LeSeuer, a British demolition expert 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. The fact that hat 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.Winner of two Obie Awards and two Outer Critics Circle Awards as Best New American Play.
Cast
(Names in red denote Curtain Call debut.)
S.SGT. "Froggy" LeSueur ….Jim Foley
Charlie Baker ….Grady Dennis
Betty Meeks …..Betty McCready
Rev. David Marshall Lee ….Daniel P. Mann
Catherine Simms ….Sophie Tiesler
Owen Musser ….Scott Ferrara
Ellie Simms ….. Nicole Neurohr
Producer – Lou Ursone
Director – Meredith Walker
Production Design – Peter Barbieri, Jr.
Costume Design – Megan Latte Ormond
Production Stage Manager – Michael Kraus
Assistant Stage Managers – Martha Dombroski, Carol Foley
Poster Design – Bob Callahan
The Foreigner is presented through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service.
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