{"id":135300,"date":"2017-11-06T10:31:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T17:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135300"},"modified":"2017-11-06T12:07:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T19:07:10","slug":"fine-day-theater-foreigner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/06\/fine-day-theater-foreigner.html","title":{"rendered":"A fine day at the theater with &#8220;The Foreigner&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a great time yesterday afternoon up at the Arvada Center seeing Larry Shue&#8217;s <i>The Foreigner,<\/i> a very funny (and touching) comedy\/farce. Arvada is consistently good theater which, sadly, not nearly enough Denverites know about.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Charlie Baker, a painfully shy Englishman, finds himself at a rural Georgia hunting lodge for a few days of peace and quiet. To save Charlie from having to speak to strangers, the local inhabitants are told that he\u2019s a foreigner who can\u2019t speak or understand a word of English. Soon they begin to share their deepest secrets with him, and Charlie must decide what to do with all of this information. The result is a hilarious look at secrets revealed, which explodes in a wildly funny climax. Winner of two Obie Awards and two Outer Critics Circle Awards as Best New American Play, The Foreigner is the perfect mix of antic comedy and celebration of how someone unexpected can bring out the best in us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The show runs through 11\/18, so if you&#8217;re local and haven&#8217;t had a chance to see it, I heartily encourage you to do so quickly. Well worth the time.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ot-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/arvadacenter.org\/subscriptions\/20172018\/TheForeigner2.html\">http:\/\/arvadacenter.org\/subscriptions\/20172018\/TheForeigner2.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"ot-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/arvadacenter.org\/about-the-center\/the-foreigner\">http:\/\/arvadacenter.org\/about-the-center\/the-foreigner<\/a><\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mPTC4lzBRGE\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/5bAeV2Hphec\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a great time yesterday afternoon up at the Arvada Center seeing Larry Shue&#8217;s The Foreigner, a very funny (and touching) comedy\/farce. Arvada is consistently good theater which, sadly, not nearly enough Denverites know about. Charlie Baker, a painfully shy Englishman, finds himself at a rural Georgia hunting lodge for a few days of peace &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/06\/fine-day-theater-foreigner.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A fine day at the theater with &#8220;The Foreigner&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-stage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/37400993140_807eb8a0531.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50126,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/19\/theater-review-the-archibishops-ceiling-by-arthur-miller.html","url_meta":{"origin":135300,"position":0},"title":"Theater Review: &#8220;The Archibishop&#8217;s Ceiling,&#8221; by Arthur Miller","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 19-Apr-15 9:25am","format":false,"excerpt":"We went to the Arvada Center last night to see this show, written by Arthur Miller in the 1970s. http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Archbishop's_Ceiling has good summary of the setup, with its questions of security state paranoia, creative responsibility, trust, and madness. 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