By Larry Shue
The scene is 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.
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