Little City Players are proud to present “The Foreigner” by Larry Shue at the Vergennes Opera House. This fun and inspired comedy demonstrates what can happen when a group of devious characters must deal with a stranger who (they think) knows no English. The show runs October 16-18th at 8pm and October 18-19th at 2pm. Tickets are $12 for adults; $10 for children/seniors. The show is not recommended for young children. Tickets are available through FlynnTix, www.flynntix.org; (802) 863-5966 or at Classic Stitching in Vergennes.

“The Foreigner” is a winner of two Obie Awards and two Outer Critics Circle Awards as Best New American Play and Best Off-Broadway Production. An inspired comic romp, equal in inventive hilarity to the author’s classic comedy The Nerd, it is based on what the NY Post describes as a “devilishly clever idea.” “I laughed start to finish at one comic surprise after another.” —The New Yorker. “…a constant invitation to relax and laugh at the foolishness of life…” —Village Voice.

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 stars Jay Stetzel as Charlie Baker, Jyoti Daniere as Catherine Simms, Melanie Bone as Betty Meeks, Melinda Hayes as Froggy LeSeuer, Hannah Weisman as Ellie Simms, Patrick Houle as Rev. David Marshall Lee, and Brian Torstenson as Owen Musser.

Established in 2006, Little City Players is a community theatre group based in Vergennes, VT. We work to promote arts in our community and serve as an outlet for members to have fun while gaining experience in the theatre.