Good People..Good Luck

The "Southie" women in David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre speak their poverty, wear their poverty, live their poverty, are their poverty. Hardened by their circumstances and instincts to survive, they don't hesitate to:

• Pull a "maury povich" on a man
• Kick a friend out on the street if she doesn't pay the rent
• Don't bother to show up on time to babysit so that a mother can make it to her Dollar Store gig on time
• Drop innuendos that may destroy a fragile marriage. 

If they were good at one point, they no longer are. You understand where they are coming from, but you don't especially like them.

No amount of good luck will save these women in Manhattan Theatre Club's pristine production (recently named Best Play by the New York Drama Critics Circle). They will most likely die their poverty.