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The Lane End Players’ spring production for 2012 will be ‘The Foreigner’ by Larry Shue.

Trying to forget his marital problems, dull and doleful Charlie Baker takes a fishing-lodge holiday in the Deep South of America, and to avoid being pestered by the locals, pretends that he is a foreigner who speaks no English.

This leads him to become unwittingly involved in bizarre goings-on including a dubious preacher, his pregnant girlfriend, her non-too-bright kid brother and a contingent of less-than-welcoming locals.

The Foreigner was the last play written by American dramatist Larry Shue, and has enjoyed successful runs on both sides of the Atlantic.