The Foreigner

By Larry Shue

Directed by
Carole Parker

Performances
April 6-8, 1989

at the Goddard

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.

Courtsey of Dramatists Play Service

Special Thanks:
First National Bank, Sgt. 1st Class Kent Tucker, Lincoln Bank, Vicki Gelona, Haywood Vaughan, John Mourer, Doris Mehrtens, Brenda & Yvonne Rushing, Sandy Ralph, Brenda's Flowers, Philip Harrel: Tucker, Georgia, KYNZ, KXII, KTEN, KKAJ, KVSO, KICM, KRDM, KRDM, Tom Roe, Bramlett Agency, Wayne Brown 

Cast
S/Stg "Froggy" LeSueur	Bryn Ralph
Charlie Baker	Don Bates
Betty Meeks	Joh Mann
Rev David Marshall Lee	Malcolm Smith
Catherine Simms	Julie Hill-McNeil
Owen Musser	Allen Stephens
Ellard Simms	Michael Rahhal
Townspeople	Matthew Williams
	Bryn Ralph
	Malcolm Smith

Crew
Stage Manager	Joan Rushing
Lighting Design	Steve Dyer
Lighting Operation	Jeff Gelona
Sound	Joan Rushing
Set Design & Decoration	Joan Rushing
Set Construction	Joan Rushing, Paul
	Coulter, Jeff & Nick
	Gelona, Doris Mehrtens,
	John Mourer, Malcolm
	Smith, Lee McGaughy,
Props	Matthew Williams, Joan
	Rushing
Costumes	Cast