Byrdstown’s Good Neigbors Theatre will be holding auditions on Monday and Tuesday, July 11 and 12 for “The Foreigner” by Larry Shue to be directed by guest artist Kathleen Gilpatrick.

Rehearsals will begin: July 18 and will be held Monday – Friday (no Wednesdays).

Performance dates for “The Foreigner” will be Friday and Saturday August, 19, 20, 26, 27, Sept 9 and 10 at 7:00 p.m. with Matinees on Sunday August 21, 28, and September 11 at 2:00 p.m.

Roles available for: five males and two females with ages ranging from age 16 to senior citizen.

Scripts are available for 24 hour check-out at People’s Bank in Byrdstown – see Janet White or for more information contact : Ms Gilpatrick: 931.858.1611 or outonalimb@charter.net

“The Foreigner” is set in 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.

“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.

“Shue’s comedy is positively antic, yet pleasantly seasoned with a few dashes of sentimentality…He has raided comedy’s storehouse…” —Bergen Record.

Good Neighbors Theatre is located at 8780 Hwy 111 in Byrdstown, TN.