His friend Froggy, an English military officer participating in some war games in Georgia, thought it might be nice for the depressed Charlie to experience a change of pace. Froggy knows the sweet, elderly proprietor of this rural cabin located just a few hours from where he will be staying. Before Froggy leaves, in an effort to both allow the painfully shy Charlie to avoid unwanted conversation, and to amuse the proprietor Betty Meeks, he makes up a story about Charlie not knowing a lick of English and being from some small country nobody has ever heard of. A story that leads to all sorts of hysterical, and eventually very dangerous, situations!

As Charlie Baker, actor Jarryd Davis captures the audience’s heart and funny bone from his first apprehensive exploration of the rustic cabin, and just gains momentum as his adventures snowball. His awkward attempts to not understand the others no matter what amusing or embarrassing or cruel things they are saying, sometimes responding with his extremely limited English vocabulary (“sank you” is all he knows at first), are a riot. And then there are his two big show-stealing moments when he introduces the others to a little bit of his native culture – his bizarre interpretive dance using napkins and his re-telling of Little Red Riding Hood all in his own made-up language and lots of hysterical nonverbal clues.

Jarryd is joined by a strong cast including Brandon Pohl as Froggy, Corie Bales as the sweet old proprietor who just thinks Charlie is the best, and Marla Worm as Catherine Simms who at first toys with Charlie, and then comes to really like him (he’s such a great listener, and she can tell him anything!). Catherine is about to make the terrible mistake of marrying Reverend David Marshall Lee. Jason Araujo gives a remarkably cold and cruel performance as the not-so-good reverend who is also the leader of the so-called “Christian hunting club” – a euphemism for the Klan. In addition to teasing “the foreigner” derisively, Reverend Lee also delights in making Catherine believe that her slow brother Ellard Simms (played both amusingly and touchingly by Lance Odom) is much slower than he really is, which is all part of his plot to deny Ellard his share of the Simms inheritance. For if it doesn’t go to Ellard, it goes to Lee’s fiancé. Which means more wealth and real estate to support the activities of his “hunting club.”