This deeply human and wildly humorous play by Pulitzer Prize-winning<\/strong> American playwright David Lindsay-Abaire<\/strong> is being presented for the first time in Greece at the Apothiki Theater. Anna Maria Papacharalambous<\/strong> directs. It is a play that is both harsh and tender, using dry and caustic humor to explore the universal\u2014and ultimately, fairy-tale-like\u2014nature of the American Dream. <\/p>\n\n Just how meritocratically and generously everyone is offered the chance to \u201cstrike it rich\u201d and escape from misery and their class identity through nothing but hard work and a little good luck. Are opportunities truly \u201cequal\u201d for everyone? As the author himself says in The New York Times: \u201cI\u2019ve worked really hard in my life. But I also know others who worked harder than I did and weren\u2019t given the same opportunities\u2026\u201d <\/p>\n\n Lower End. South Boston. A working-class neighborhood. Margie Walsh tries to make ends meet as a cashier at the \u201cOh, What\u2019ll You Take for a Dollar?\u201d store, but she gets fired because she\u2019s constantly late clocking in. The reason is her daughter, who, because she has some form of intellectual disability, takes up a large part of her time. Her landlady is also threatening to evict her. Bingo, the neighborhood\u2019s favorite game, could be a way to make some easy money\u2014if she won, of course. The other solution, her friends say, is to go find Mike, her teenage crush, who is now a prominent doctor and lives in the expensive suburbs with his wife. She should find him and ask him for a job! <\/p>\n\n And Margie Walsh does just that. And from here on out\u2014throughout her entire journey from the poor suburb where she lives to the affluent neighborhood\u2014she\u2019ll be confronted with the fundamental questions concerning behaviors, lifestyles, and the decisions people make. Decisions that defined her. That shaped her \u201cafterward\u201d and her development. Decisions made because of social status and, perhaps, because of weakness. Decisions that reflect how a person perceives the world, themselves, and\u2014why not\u2014how others see them. Decisions based on kindness? And where does the dividing line lie between all of these? <\/p>\n\n *Good People* premiered in 2011 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway in New York City. The play was nominated for a Tony Award<\/strong> that same year and also won the New York Critics Circle Award<\/strong> (Best Play of the Year). It has been staged in theaters around the world to great success and rave reviews. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" at the Apothiki Theater This deeply human and wildly humorous play by Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright David Lindsay-Abaire is being presented for the first time in Greece at the Apothiki…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","cpt_portfolio_group":[463,470],"class_list":["post-45200","cpt_portfolio","type-cpt_portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cpt_portfolio_group-2021-2022","cpt_portfolio_group-piraeus-131-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_portfolio\/45200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cpt_portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_portfolio\/45200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45204,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_portfolio\/45200\/revisions\/45204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cpt_portfolio_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_portfolio_group?post=45200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Story<\/h4>\n\n