Performers Needed for "The Foreigner" Play
The company is holding auditions for "The Foreigner" Play and looking for performers, please see the details below About the project: The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visted by “Froggy” LeSueur, 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 rednecked 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. Additional info: PERFORMANCES: August 15-25, 2024 AUDITION PREPARATION No monologues will be necessary. Prepare sides for each character you are auditioning for. Please TRY the character's accent for auditions.
8 roles
A British military demolitions expert who occasionally conducts field operations in rural Georgia, Froggy is Charlie’s caring friend. British accent.
A science-fiction copy editor for a book publishing house, Charlie is a pathologically shy man who has a very unfaithful wife, no personality that he can think of, and a need for peace and quiet. British accent.
The proprietor of a Georgia fishing lodge, Betty is past seventy, a widow, and a long-time friend of Froggy. She is pleasant, wise in some ways, naïve in others. She is a good-hearted, generous, “down-home” Southerner who speaks the hardy local dialect. Southern accent.
Neither the stereotypical pallid young divinity student nor the hearty backslapping evangelist, he appears to be a regular guy, one that you would like to have on your side. He is not what he seems, however. Southern accent.
The potentially rich fiancée of the Reverend Lee, she can be a formidable force and occasionally almost too much for the good reverend to handle. She has a ready wit and a sharp tongue. Southern accent.
The Tilghman County property inspector. Owen and the Reverend Lee are cooking up a plot to condemn Betty’s lodge so that it can be bought for their own nefarious purposes. Southern accent.
Catherine’s brother, Ellard is an agreeable young man who is a bit slow-witted. He works as a sort of handyman for Betty and needs a considerable bit of instruction in his tasks, but may not be as dull as he seems. Southern accent.
Various townspeople
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