PORT ANGELES — Rebecca Gilbert will conduct auditions for an upcoming production of “The Foreigner” at 6:30 p.m. July 17 and at 2 p.m. July 19.
The auditions will be conducted at the Port Angeles Community Playhouse, 1235 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles.
The farce, written by Larry Shue and directed by Gilbert, will be performed from Sept. 26 through Oct. 12.
Gilbert will cast five men and two women for the play and expects to rehearse three or four nights per week and, possibly, one weekend rehearsal as the opening nears.
Copies of the script are available to preview at the Port Angeles Main Library and at the temporary location of the Sequim Branch Library.
“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.
