Aurora Community Theatre

 

GOOD PEOPLE

by David Lindsay-Abaire

 

Two Friends – Same Background – Two Very Different Paths

 

Opens This Weekend

 

GOOD PEOPLE, a play about choices, and those who may not have them, opens Aurora Community Theatre’s 57^th season at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21, continuing Fridays and Saturdays through Nov. 12 at the theatre, 115 E. Pioneer Trail.

 

Fred Sternfeld makes his ACT directorial debut with David Lindsay-Abaire’s GOOD PEOPLE, which takes a provocative, sometimes humorous, but never preachy look at the “haves” and “have-nots” in America. Is it luck, hard work or a combination of the two that determine destiny?

 

FEATURING

 

Paula Kline-Messner as Margie

Rob Albrecht as Mike

Craig Joseph as Stevie

Kristi Little as Kate

Jenny Barrett as Jean

Mary Jane Nottage as Dottie

 

TICKETS NOW ON SALE
$16 adults, $11 age 18 and under

BUY ONLINE ANYTIME
www.auroracommunitytheatre.com
or call 330.562.1818

 

GOOD PEOPLE

 Opening Night Ticket
includes

complimentary after-show gala
opportunity to meet cast and crew

 

GOOD PEOPLE tells the story of Margie Walsh and Mikey Dillon who grew up good friends in blue-collar South Boston. They even had a brief summer romance, but after high school, Mike caught every break. He went to college, became a doctor, moved to the suburbs and rose rapidly on the financial ladder. At the same time, Margie’s no-luck life and single motherhood kept her in Southie juggling minimum-wage jobs, always balancing on a slippery slope “only a paycheck away from desperate straits.”

 

When Margie (pronounced with a hard “g”) and Mike meet again two decades later, the stark contrast of their lives and a long-buried secret force them each to take an honest look at life.