Silence is golden for laughs in ‘The Foreigner’

  • By Theresa Goffredo Herald Writer
  • Thursday, March 11, 2010 2:20pm
  • LifeGo-See-Do

“The Foreigner”: Ah, to be that fly on the wall.

That’s what Charlie is.

In this comedy set in a fishing lodge in rural Tilghman County, Ga., two Englishmen, Froggy and Charlie, arrive as guests.

Charlie goes there after pleadings from his sick wife to accompany Froggy on the trip. But Charlie is really shy, painfully shy. So when people at the lodge try to talk to Charlie, he cannot seem to respond.

Froggy solves the problem by telling people Charlie cannot talk because he is from an exotic country and doesn’t understand English.

Freed from his need to speak, Charlie does a lot of listening. He overhears everyone’s conversations and soon everyone forgets he’s there. Charlie discovers devious scandals among some of the residents of the lodge.

The show is directed by Ray Riches with Mychal Loving as Froggy and William Lofthouse as Charlie.

“The Foreigner” opens at 8 tonight at the Stillaguamish Grange Hall, 6521 Pioneer Highway, Stanwood. Shows are 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2:30 p.m. Sundays through March 28.

There are two dinner shows at 6:30 p.m. Saturday and March 20. The meal includes orange and pecan salad with mixed greens, ham roll-ups with stuffing and gravy, and your choice of sour cream lemon pie or pound cake with fruit.

Tickets are $15 and $7.50, and $25 for the dinner show. Call 360-629-4494 or go to the Snow Goose Book Store, 8616 271st St. NW, Stanwood.

“Brooklyn Boy”: Taproot Theatre presents this comedic and heartfelt show by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies for the first time in the Northwest.

In “Brooklyn Boy,” Eric Weiss finally starts to come of age — a couple of decades too late. He’s finally made it big with a best seller and a shot at a Hollywood film. Then an inconvenient phone call brings him back to the Brooklyn neighborhood he grew up in and happily left behind.

Witty and touching, this story of growing up, coming home and making sense of it all begs the question: Can you ever really go home again?

“Brooklyn Boy” opens with previews Wednesday at Taproot Theatre, 204 N. 85th St., Seattle. Shows are 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays and 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays through April 17.

Tickets are $20 to $35. Call 206-781-9707 or go to www.taproottheatre.org.

“The Two Gentlemen of Verona”: It’s sunshine and shenanigans for this Seattle Shakespeare Company production when this comic tale of wandering hearts gets relocated to the coast in Southern California.

Directed by Marcus Goodwin, this story opens with how life is sweet for buddies Proteus and Valentine as they dine in great restaurants, chill in the best clubs and get to hang out on yachts.

But when Valentine heads off to attend the university, fickle Proteus drops his gal, Julia, and goes with him. While at school, the moony and misguided guys stumble over themselves trying to win the heart of beautiful Sylvia. When resourceful Julia gets wind of it, she devises a plan to win back her wayward beau.

“Although the characters in ‘Two Gents’ are entirely lovable, they are a bit clueless,” Goodwin said.

“The Two Gentlemen of Verona” opens with previews Thursday at Center House Theatre, 305 Harrison St., Seattle. Shows are 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, 2 p.m. on selected Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through April 11.

Tickets range from $30 to $36 for adults and $22 to $25 for seniors and students. Call 206-733-8222 or go to www.seattleshakespeare.org.

Theresa Goffredo: 425-339-3424; goffredo@heraldnet.com.

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