AUDITIONS: The Foreigner
Schedule
Mon Dec 16 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
104 S Front St, Smithfield, NC, United States, North Carolina 27577 | Smithfield, NC
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Monday & Tuesday, December 16 & 17, 2024 - 7pm
at the Hut
(Corner of Front & Market Streets, Smithfield, NC)
CAST: 5+m/2+w (7+ total)
All listed roles are open - Casting is open to everyone and newcomers are especially welcomed and encouraged. Crew volunteers are also needed.
Auditions will consist of cold reading from the script. Please come prepared to tell of any conflict dates you have from auditions to final show date. We encourage all performers to submit for any role regardless of ability, race, ethnicity, sexuality, neurodiversity, and similarity to the source material or original cast. Ages are relative, and should not discourage anyone from auditioning.
For more information, you may contact the director at [email protected].
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Charlie Baker (male, 30-50) — A meek, painfully shy, dull proofreader for a science fiction magazine from England. He is deposited at a fishing lodge in rural Georgia by his good friend Froggy. Stuck in a bad marriage with a wife who has cheated on him numerous times and due to his fear of conversation, Froggy tells everyone that Charlie is a foreigner who speaks no English. During the course of his three-day visit, Charlie not only discovers that he does have a personality, but endears himself to all in the process. English accent required.
Staff Sergeant Froggy LeSueur (male, 30-50) — An outgoing, cheerful career British Army Englishman and explosive demolitions expert; a man who is flushed with the spirit of adventure. He’s a longtime friend of Betty Meeks and Charlie Baker. He has traveled the world, including many stays at the Betty Meeks Fishing Lodge Resort— which (surprise, surprise) is not the most exotic place he’s been to, but certainly has its charm. Heavy Cockney accent required.
Betty Meeks (female, 50+) — An charismatic but aging widow with a big personality who owns the fishing lodge. She has a fun, sarcastic nature, but she is very nurturing to all who come in contact with her. She is a hard worker, and her weak body carries all of the work she has done throughout the years. She has dreamed of traveling outside her Georgia home, but never has. Struggling to keep her inn from outside forces. With her heavy southern accent, Betty’s idea of communicating with “the foreigner” is shouting.
Catherine Simms (female, 18-25) — A southern belle who has traded her debutante title for a “soon-to-be preacher’s wife” title. She’d be happy about it, but her cynical opinions, cranky attitude and self-loathing tends to get in the way. She is heiress to a fortune and Ellard’s older sister and guardian. She is bored with life, restless, and uncertain of what she wants when confronted with an unplanned-for surprise. At first viewed as spoiled and somewhat unpleasant, Catherine transforms as she pours her heart out to Charlie (who, she assumes, understands nothing she says) and finds him a kind and wonderful friend.
Ellard Simms (male, 18-20s) — Catherine's slow but sweet, overgrown, backward younger brother who just needs a little bit of confidence to realize what he’s capable of. A kind, gentle-hearted person who no one really gives the time of day to until Charlie comes into the picture.
Reverend David Marshall Lee (male, 20s-30s) — Good looking, sincere, charming and confident. Engaged to Catherine. Must appear to be a genuinely decent person. When it is just him alone with Charlie however, he begins to show his true colors.
Owen Musser (male, 20s-50s) — A local redneck property inspector and a superstitious, dangerous racist man that lives in town, who’s trying to steal Betty’s lodge right out from under her. Literally. Owen is a textbook bigot, prejudiced against any and all who don’t fit his idea of White, Christian, America.
Extras (any) — nonspeaking roles, part of a "secret organization" who come in to terrorize and intimidate the residents of the fishing lodge.
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Comedy by Larry Shue
At a fishing lodge in rural Georgia, British demolition expert, “Froggy” LeSueur, regularly visits while running training sessions at a nearby army base. This visit, he brought a pathologically shy young friend named Charlie who is overcome with fear at making conversation with strangers. “Froggy” tells everyone that Charlie is from an exotic foreign country and speaks no English. Others reveal their secrets, and Charlie overhears more than he should thinking he doesn’t understand a word being said, and it fuels the nonstop hilarity of the play and setting up the climax where things go awry for the “bad guys,” and the “good guys” emerge triumphant.
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Where is it happening?
104 S Front St, Smithfield, NC, United States, North Carolina 27577Event Location & Nearby Stays:
