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Posted: 2011-03-04T21:50:16Z | Updated: 2017-12-07T03:00:33Z

GOOD PEOPLE ** out of ****
TIMON OF ATHENS ***
NIGHTINGALE ***
BEAUTIFUL BURNOUT **

Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire tackles the haves and the have-nots in his unfortunately thin followup to the Pulitzer Prize-winning dram Rabbit Hole. Who are the good people in this story? You can't help rooting for Margaret (Frances McDormand, in fine form). She's a single mom in the poor neighborhood of South Boston with a special needs kid, struggling to get by when she's fired from the Dollar Store for being perpetually late. And why is she late? Because she can't afford decent daycare and has to wait for her landlady to show up before Margaret can take off for her low-paying job. It's the latest in a string of jobs she's held down.

In one of the show's more effective moments, Margaret details the tenuous hold she has on surviving by showing how taking a bite of some hard candy leads to a chipped tooth which leads to a dentist appointment (delayed for six months until she can't bear it any longer -- by then of course, it's infected and more expensive to fix) which leads to a late car payment which leads to no car which leads to being late to work which leads to another job down the tube.

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