| The Foreigner June 2-18, 2006 By Larry Shue.
The Foreigner tells the uproariously farcical tale of a pathologically shy Brit, Charlie, who escapes his stressful life by booking a holiday in backwoods Georgia. He desperately tries to avoid the local yokels by posing as a foreigner who doesn’t understand a word of English. But the plan hilariously backfires when he becomes the perfect person with whom all share their deepest secrets and schemes: 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.
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