It has been confirmed that Good People will transfer from the Hampstead Theatre to the Noel Coward Theatre. The production opens on Tuesday 15th April 2014 (previews from 10th April).
Good People will run in the West End for ten weeks, filling the gap between The Full Monty (which is closing early on Saturday 29th March) and Shakespeare in Love which premieres in July.
Jonathan Kent's production, about whether you can ever truly leave the place where you were born, made its UK premiere at Hampstead Theatre on 5th March starring Imelda Staunton and Lloyd Owen. The show originally premiered on Broadway, winning the New York Drama Desk Critic’s Circle Award for Best Play.
Edward Hall (Hampstead Theatre’s Artistic Director) said: “I am utterly delighted that Good People is having this very well-deserved West End run: it’s a truly brilliant play beautifully directed, and the cast are astonishingly good in it. It was sold out at Hampstead before those really great reviews appeared, so it’s especially pleasing that so many people who would otherwise have been disappointed will now have a chance to catch it.”
If you were born in South Boston you've started life on the wrong side of the tracks, so just making ends meet will need all the energy you can muster. Imelda Staunton plays sharp-tongued single mother Margie, who will do anything it takes to pay the bills after losing yet another job. Hearing that an old boyfriend who has made good is in town, she decides to corner him - old loyalties should be good for something.
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