The Foreigner (play)
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The Foreigner is a comedy by playwright and actor Larry Shue.
Set in a fishing lodge in rural Georgia, the plot revolves around two of its guests, Englishmen Froggy LeSuere and Charlie Baker, who is so pathologically shy he is unable to speak. As way of explanation, Froggy claims his companion is the native of an exotic country who doesn't understand the language, and before long Charlie finds himself privy to assorted secrets and scandals freely discussed in front of him by the other visitors, included spoiled Southern belle Catherine Simms, her fiancé Rev. David Lee, a seemingly humble preacher with a dark underside, her younger brother Ellard, a simpleton who attempts to teach Charlie English, and Owen Musser, the racist county property inspector, who plans to oust property owner Betty Meeks and convert the lodge into a meeting place for the Ku Klux Klan.
Following its premiere in Milwaukee, the play, directed by Jerry Zaks, opened on November 1, 1984 at New York City's Astor Place Theatre, where it ran for 686 performances. The opening night cast included Shue, Anthony Heald, and Patricia Kalember. It eventually won two Obie Awards and two Outer Critics Circle Awards as Best New American Play and Best Off-Broadway Production.
On November 7, 2004, a Roundabout Theatre Company revival, directed by Scott Schwartz and starring Matthew Broderick and Frances Sternhagen, opened for a ten-week run at the off-Broadway Laura Pels Theatre.
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