Yikes, the new play at the Gamm is getting raves. “Good People” should play particularly well to local audiences (assuming they get the accents right).
When Margie Walsh, a single mother with a severely disabled adult daughter, loses her job at a South Boston dollar store, she looks to her high-school-boyfriend-turned-successful-doctor for a new job. But her attempt to hit up “Dr. Mike,” who left working-class “Southie” for the manicured lawns of Chestnut Hill, takes a surprising turn when Margie realizes the power of a secret from her old flame’s past.
Bill Rodriguez at the Providence Phoenix,
Marvelous play, marvelous production. By the end I walked out brightened, convinced that, despite differences of class and temperament, it’s possible for contentious people to get along.
And from Channing Gray at the ProJo,
David Lindsay-Abaire spins a pretty good yarn in “Good People,” the latest offering from Pawtucket’s Gamm Theatre. But it’s the small talk that’s drop-dead funny and makes this play such a winner.
Photo by Peter Goldberg. Left to right: Mia Ellis, Jeanine Kane, Bill Mootos.
Tickets $38-$48, “Good People” through December 8, Gamm Theatre, 172 Exchange Street, Pawtucket, 401.723.4266