Celine Montaudy of Norwalk, Featured in URI Theatre Production of "Good People"

The University of Rhode Island Theatre Department opened its first production of the year with "Good People" by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire.

URI student Celine Montaudy of Norwalk, played Margie.

"Good People" is an edgy, witty, powerful and funny investigation of class differences in today's America, and it probes the theme of this fall's URI Honors Colloquium topic, "Inequality and the American Dream." The plot follows Margie Walsh, a mother living in South Boston with her adult daughter who has disabilities. Margie is about to lose her Dollar Store job and could face eviction. In desperation, she seeks help from her recently-back-in-town high school boyfriend of long ago, who is now a well-to-do doctor, husband and father living in the upper class milieu of Chestnut Hill.

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