Biscuit Box Theater Company : The Foreigner

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, 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!

Characters

"Froggy" Le Sueur - Englishman, well-fed, flushed with the spirit of adventure, cheerful,
Played by Maximilian Flisi

Charlie Baker - Englishman, quiet, somehow permanently lost, sad, bad at talking to people,
boring, proofreader, former officer
Played by Gordon Vidaver

Betty Meeks - widow, a regular chatterbox, speaks the hardy local dialect, wise about some
things and naive about others, slown' down, tirin' out, jest feelin' s'bad, puny, sick, jest not much
interested in things no more, runnin' down...
Played by Johanna Winer

Rev. David Marshall Lee - Catherine's fiancée, the sweet-temperedest man they is on this earth,
friendly, open, neither the stereotypically pallid, remote young divinity student, nor the hearty,
backslapping evangelist, regular fella, humorous, good young man.
Played by Webb Tilney

Catherine Simms - Ellard's sister, part heiress to the Simms Prepared Meats fortune, real well
off, a formidable little figure.
Played by Frances Vella

Owen Musser - mean old thing, property inspector for Tilghman County, a two-tattoo man.
Played by Charles Hess

Ellard Simms - Catherine's baby brother, dumb, a little half-wit, part heir to the Simms Prepared
Meats fortune, lumpy, overgrown, backward youth, spends much of his time kneading something
tiny and invisible in front of his chest.
Played by Kyle Bargoot

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