Event

OCT presents THE FOREIGNER

Olean Community Theatre, Inc.
presents a Comedy by Larry Shue

THE FOREIGNER

Directed by Jake Riggs

Friday, APR 26 2013 at 7:30p
Saturday, APR 27 2013 at 7:30p
Sunday, APR 28 2013 at 2:00p

Portville Central School Auditorium
500 Elm Street
Portville, NY 14770

ABOUT THE SHOW...

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.

He becomes The Foreigner and once alone the fun really begins, as Charlie overhears more than he shouldthe 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.