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September 25th - September 28th October 2nd - October 5th October 9th - October 12th |
Producer - Carol Loysen Props - Evelyn Frey Lighting Design - Tom Rowell |
| The Foreigner, by Larry Shue, is my favorite American comedy, and one of the
funniest and most engaging theatre pieces Ive ever encountered.
This play has everything: great comic dialogue and situation,
suspense, romance, surprise turns of plot, all driven by the interplay
of seven wonderfully drawn characters, characters that unfold
into something different from what we first think they are. |
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THE CAST
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Staying at the lodge are CATHERINE SIMMS (20s - 30s), a spoiled (at first take) ex-debutante and her dim-witted (ditto) brother ELLARD (teens - 30s). Catherine is engaged to THE REV. DAVID MARSHALL LEE (20s - 40s) a really (we think) sweet guy with a big heart. Hanging tight to the Reverend is OWEN MUSSER (20s - 50s) a good ol bottom-feeder, whom we initially mistake for harmless. Early in his stay, Charlie overhears some things he shouldnt and decides hed better feign an ignorance of the English language for his own good. And it is this wonderful device of dramatic irony - where we (and Froggy) are in on Charlies secret but nobody else is - that fuels the non-stop hilarity of the play and sets up the startling change of fortunes when things go uproariously awry for the bad guys and the good guys emerge triumphant.
-Jack Bradt, Director