By John Redmond
Probationary Theatre Company (PTC) is launching a new season of shows staged at the White Box Theatre in Hyochang Park, Seoul beginning with the New York piece “Good People.”
The
work was first staged in Manhattan in 2011 and it was nominated for two
―
and
Best Leading Actress in a Play
(
), with the latter winning.
The plot revolves around the character, Margie, whose existence hangs by a thread.
She is fired from her low-wage job at a dollar store because the demands of taking care for her mentally disabled adult daughter often causes her to report to work late.
Her landlord, who is also a “friend,” is threatening to kick her out now that she’s unemployed. And the one person who might actually be able to help her, an old boyfriend from Southie, a Boston neighborhood who is now a successful doctor, doesn’t even want her to attend his birthday party for fear of embarrassment. The only hope left seems to be a good round of bingo. And maybe some good people, if Margie can find them.
The director of last year’s “Red Light Winter,” Stephen Glaspie, promises to have audiences rolling in the aisles with this wonderful new comedy about good people fallen on hard times and how they deal with them.
“A play about selfishness, self reliance and self sacrifice,” states a press release.
Dates are Jan. 25, 26 and 27 and Feb. 1, 2, and 3. Performance times are Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m. and Sunday at 4 p.m. Tickets cost 15,000 won.
PTC is a theater company committed to providing the foreign community in Seoul with quality entertainment, run by expats, for expats. If you wish to be involved with PTC, please get in contact on https://www.probationarytheatre.com.
To get to White Box Theatre, leave exit 2 of Hyochang Park station, make a U-turn (180 degrees) and walk around the corner towards Hyochang Park Stadium. Do not walk straight from the exit. There are big green street signs in English showing the way to Hyochang Staduim. Walk past the tire store and take a right when you see the Eco & Deco Flower Shop on your right. Head up the slight hill. You should see Cosmai Cafe on your right. White Box Theatre is in the basement of the building next to Cosmai Cafe.
Total walking time should not exceed five minutes.