GOOD PEOPLE

GOOD PEOPLE, by David Lindsay-Abaire

A Special Readers Theater Performance. (Recommended for mature audiences due to profanity and the use of a racial slur.)

A working class, middle aged, South Boston woman struggling to make ends meet and care for her 30-something year old, developmentally delayed daughter, finds herself unemployed again.  When her Bingo friends suggest approaching an old high school boyfriend, who has made his way out of the neighborhood and is a successful doctor married to a much younger wife, for help, she feels conflicted.
David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted a brilliant script that makes us at turns laugh and cry and look at the assembled characters and question who are the “good people” in life’s struggles to survive every day life.
Aurora Players Readers Theater is a style of theater dating back to at least as early as the 1800s, in which the actors present dramatic readings of plays without costumes, props, scenery or special lighting. Performers bring the text alive by using voice, facial expressions and some gestures. It is an engaging form of theater where audience members’ imaginations fuel their individual experiences of the performance.

Cast Members

Alyssa Walsh-Morris

Margie

Dan Morris

Mike

LuAnn Gugino

Dottie

Stephanie Bax

Jean

Geno Delmaro

Stevie

Emrald Jaceil

Kate

Eric Miller

Priest

Maegan Jones

Narrator

Director: Matt Boyle

(photo at right)

Director, Matt Boyle (photo at right), says he is an aspring director, a pretty good actor, a developing playwright and hates producing (which is probably what he does best in theatre).

Matt has had several of his short plays produced by Alleyway Theater, Springville Center for the Arts, WNY-ART and Buffalo Writers’ Theater, including:  Brotherhood of the Whirlpool Box; The Only Easy Day was Yesterday; and Lawn Wars. He most recently directed Tom Griffin’s The Boys Next Door for Inclusive Theater of WNY (ITOWNY).

He owes debts he can’t repay to God, his wife, family and friends.

2023-24 Season