The Foreigner can be seen as many things - a fun, crowd-pleasing comedy, a farce of mistaken identity or an interactive step-by-step instruction manual about how to acquire a personality. The first - and essentially only - step that the play suggests is to take on a fake identity.
The main character, Charlie Baker, is a pathologically shy, self-described "profoundly boring" Englishman who has been dragged along to a rural Georgian fishing lodge by his friend Froggy. Because Charlie is so terrified of speaking to anyone, Froggy decides to help him out by telling everyone that he is a foreigner from an exotic country who does not speak a word of English
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