If you’re looking to add flavor to you cultural diet for 2009, try a helping of the Newtowne Players’ performance of “The Foreigner.”
Under the direction of Kerry Robinson, the Newtowne Players have been rehearsing “The Foreigner” since early November. This marks Kerry’s fifth show as a director for The Newtowne Players with The Foreigner. He began working with the organization in 2003, is a founding member who has served on the Executive Council, and is currently NTP’s Production Manager.
“The Foreigner” is a comedy by Larry Shue. 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.
The play opens Jan. 16 and runs Thursday through Sundays until Feb. 1. For reservations and information call (301) 737-5447 or visit their website.