My college roommates and I went to see Good People, a play at the Lyric Arts Theater. I didn't read up on it before I went. The first scene a woman named Margy gets fired from her job as a cashier at the dollar store because of her chronic tardiness. But the scene is funny so I think this is a comedy. Thus went the whole show. On the surface I think it's a comedy but the content is not funny at all. I guess that makes this a dark comedy; emphasis on dark. The play is set in South Boston in the 1960's. Margy and her friends grew up in a poor neighborhood called "Southie." Margy is a single mother and she has an adult daughter with developmental disabilities to care for. Margy is a good person but just can't seem to get ahead. Is the fact that she never left the Southie neighborhood a result of her choices? Margy doesn't think so but her ex flame, a reproductive endocrinologist, does think so. Is he a good person? Is Margy a good person? Life is complicated and good can be defined in many ways. I wish I had gone to a matinee so that my friends and I could meet afterward to digest this play.
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