Valley Playhouse presents “The Foreigner”
SHOWTIMES
Thurs (3/23) 7:30
Fri (3/24) 7:30
Sat (3/25) 7:30
Sun (3/26) 3:00
Thurs (3/30) 7:30 Pay What You Will Night*
Fri (3/31) 7:30
Sat (4/1) 7:30
Sun (4/2) 3:00
TICKETS
- $15.00 Adult Advanced
- $13.00 Senior/Student Advanced
- $17.00 Adult At Door
- $15.00 Senior/Student At Door
*Pay What You Will is Cash-Only, At Door Sales*
Larry Shue’s “The Foreigner” Synopsis
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 plan of a sinister, two-faced minister and his redneck associate; the fact that the minister’s pretty fiancé 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.
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 plan of a sinister, two-faced minister and his redneck associate; the fact that the minister’s pretty fiancé 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 List
Buddy Garrison as Charlie Baker
Scott Lunsford as Froggy LeSuer
Terry Southerington as Betty Meeks
Jenny Howard as Ellard Simms
Laura Pyle as Catherine Simms
Sam Kauffman as Rev. David Marshall Lee
Michael Lafferty as Owen Musser
Directed by Stephen Winegard
Produced by Gail Arthur and Claire Wayman
Winner of two Obie Awards and two Outer Critics Circle Awards.
Through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Scripts, Inc.
