The play by David Lindsay-Abaire is about who wins and who loses in the economic game of life
One of the favorites to win this year’s Tony Award for Best Musical is “Kimberly Akimbo,” a quirky and heartwarming Broadway musical with a script by David Lindsay-Abaire, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright with a gift for crafting complex and realistic American characters who are struggling to succeed and survive in an often-unforgiving world.
Oceanside Theatre Company opened a new production of “Good People” Saturday at the Brooks Theater in Oceanside. Sandy Campbell makes an impressive directing debut with this tautly paced production, balancing the play’s humor and darkness with well-crafted character performances.The play arrives in San Diego when homelessness is rising, inflation has spiked and housing affordability is at a near record low. In times like these, even good people can end up in desperate straits when things go bad.
That’s what happens to Margie, a rough-around-the-edges single mom who cares for her mentally disabled adult daughter. When she’s let go from her dollar store job for chronic tardiness due to her daughter’s needs, Margie tracks down her high school boyfriend, Mike, who she hasn’t seen in 30 years.
Susan Clausen gives a fiercely authentic performance as Margie, who is tough, manipulative, occasionally cruel and unwilling to accept responsibility for the bad choices she has made. But she’s also self-sacrificing, maternal, forgiving and kind. Equally strong is Ted Leib as Mike, who starts out friendly, if disinterested in Margie’s visit, and then ramps up to icy and cutting as Margie refuses to take no for an answer and begins spilling some of his well-kept secrets.
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