The Foreigner

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 red-neck 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 non-stop 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

"I laughed start to finish at one comic surprise after another" ~ The New Yorker