PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Community Players will open its 74th season with performances of “The Foreigner” at 7 p.m. Fridays and Tuesdays and matinees at 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Oct. 12.
The play will be performed at the Port Angeles Community Playhouse, 1235 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles.
Tickets are $18 per person, $9 for students www.pacommunityplayers.org.
The play was written by Larry Shue and will be directed by Rebecca Senne.
“I have to say that with a wonderful, talented cast, an amazing, hilarious script and the boundless enthusiasm for this play, I couldn’t be more excited to facilitate bringing it to the PACP stage,” Senne said. “It’s a timeless classic, and the author, Larry Shue, was so insightful, having written it in 1982. The deeper meaning of this script holds true more than 40 years later.”
“The Foreigner” is set at a fishing lodge in rural Georgia and follows Englishmen Charlie Baker and Staff Sergeant Froggy LeSueur on a getaway trip.
Baker, both shy and depressed, tells LeSueur that he cannot speak with strangers and panics when the locals try to chat him up.
LeSueur concocts a story that Baker doesn’t speak English because he’s a foreigner from a far-off land.
Believing that Baker doesn’t understand them, the lodge’s other guests begin talking about their secrets in front of him.
