Sunday, February 06, 2011
David Lindsay-Abaire Returns Home With ‘Good People’
NYTimes.com: "THE playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, who won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for “Rabbit Hole,” grew up in South Boston — Southie, as it’s known. Southie, the setting of his much anticipated Broadway follow-up, “Good People,” is a neighborhood of narrow streets and small houses jammed together on a peninsula jutting into Boston Harbor and cut off from downtown by an old shipping channel. Even to some Bostonians, growing up here is a little like growing up on the moon. They know the place mostly from gritty movies set there, like “Good Will Hunting” and “The Departed.”
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I'm a big fan of David Lindsay-Abaire's, and it's really interesting to me how he can actively and consciously adapt his writing styles to the various genres that he writes (and from absurdist dark comedy to snarky pop-culture jokes to musicals to gripping naturalistic pieces, he certainly does). One theme that constantly shows up in Abaire's work is "the outsider" and his attempt to find meaning in life, which I think will work very nicely in the discussion of social class in his new play.
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