Springfield Contemporary Theatre will present the Springfield-area premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's "Good People" opening this weekend and running through Sept. 24 at SCT Center Stage in Wilhoit Plaza, corner of Robberson and Pershing downtown. It's a co-production with Resident Artist Ensemble, directed by Melanie Dreyer-Lude. Equity Actor Sarah Wiggin calls "Good People" "a kind of homage to (playwright David Lindsay-Abaire's) upbringing in "Southie," a south Boston neighborhood which, says Wiggin, is very much a working class area. While it has been "changing over time, it's an ethnically diverse neighborhood. What David Lindsay-Adaire is focusing on, primarily because of his own upbringing, is the Irish-Catholic community of South Boston and the struggles of that particular community. It is traditionally a rather impoverished community, and so they've struggled over time and generations to pull themselves up and out. And they've had varying degrees of success." Margie Walsh
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