The Foreigner

By Larry Shue 

Casting 5 men, 2 women, and ensemble. 

No experience necessary.

Auditions will be a cold readings from the script. 

Character Breakdown

Charlie Baker – A timid proofreader for a science fiction magazine with a merrily adulterous wife who disdains him, yet whom he misses.

“Froggy” LeSueur ­– A cheerful British Army man.

Betty Meeks – A good-natured elderly widow who owns a resort lodge and mothers her guests.

Catherine Simms – A pretty heiress going through an emotional time, who looks after Ellard.

Ellard Simms – Catherine’s dim-witted brother, heir to half the family fortune.

Rev. David Marshall Lee – A polite, good-looking white Christian man, engaged to Catherine.

Owen Musser – A superstitious, dangerous white supremacist who lives in town.

Townspeople

Performance dates: 

August 7-9 and 13-16

Director: Laura Meyer

Trying to forget his marital problems, dull and doleful Charlie Baker takes a fishing lodge holiday in the Deep South of America, and to avoid being pestered by the locals pretends that he is a foreigner who 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. 

Presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Dramatists Play Service. www.concordtheatricals.com