‘Good People’ auditions Jan. 18-19

The play contains roles for 4 women and 2 men. They are:

MARGIE (40-50s) a tough cookie with a heart of gold, down-on-her luck single mother from South Boston.

MIKE (40-50s) a successful fertility doctor who escaped Margie’s South Boston neighborhood and not too eager to be reminded of his past.

DOTTIE (60s) Margie’s landlady and friend.

JEAN (40-50s) Margie’s tough as nails friend, “the mouthy from Southy.”

STEVIE (20-30s) Manager of the Dollar Store, son of an old friend of Margie’s.

KATE (woman of color 30-50s) Mike’s wife, kind, beautiful, highly intelligent and well educated.

Rehearsals for “Good People” will begin in March with performances running from May 8 through May 23. If you are unable to attend these audition times, please contact director for an alternate time, if possible. Bring a headshot and resume if you have one.

Readings will be from the script. Sides are available at the art center at the gallery desk. For more information, please email judieh@ gorge.net or call 541-386-6221.

Play description

In South Boston, gossiping and bustin’ chops is the name of the game. “Good People” is a funny, tough and tender story about the insurmountable class divide. When Margie Walsh loses her job at a South Boston dollar store, she reaches out to her old flame Mike, a neighborhood boy who escaped and became a successful doctor.

Margie's attempt to hit Mike up for a job takes on a surprising twist. Throughout it all, the characters discuss the role luck has, or does not have in success, while they encourage the audience to rethink our relationships with others, our assumptions and our words.

Lindsay-Abaire’s play is a powerful and important story about valuing your position in life without forgetting where you came from, or the people you left behind.

From Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lindsay-Abaire, “Good People” looks at the extraordinary consequences of choosing to hold on to the past or leave it behind. In 2011 Frances McDormand won the Tony Award for Best Performance by an actress for the role of Margie.