Event

The Foreigner

Lakeside Players Presents

The Foreigner
by Larry Shue

Directed by Mackenzie Renner
Asst. Director - Mark Bracken

CAST (In Alphabetical Order)

Rev. David Marshall Lee - Chris Brouton
Charlie Baker - Joe Cardamone
Froggy LeSeuer - Bob Dawson
Owen Musser - Eric Houghton
Ellard Simms - Steve Horton
Catherine Simms - Krista Ann Rasmussen
Betty Meeks - Clara-lin Tappa
This show is a winner of two Obie Awards and two Outer Critics Circle Awards as Best New American Play and Best Off-Broadway Production. The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visited by "Froggy" 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 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.