Good People – Sara Jablon-Roberts

Good People

StageWest Theater Company, Des Moines, IA

Good People is set in contemporary South Boston, a working-class and traditionally Irish neighborhood. The play touches on issues of race, gender, and class, asking if the difference between those who are born, live, work and die in South Boston and those who move on and up is luck or hard work or both. The costumes for Good People needed to look true to life, like real people would have them in their real closets.

Stevie and Margie in their Dollar Store uniforms

8455372828_598904ec39_o — Act I, Scene 1 in the alley behind the Dollar Store

websitephotos2 — Dottie, Margie, and Jean in their morning clothes

8454274205_3255645c08_o — Act I, Scene 2 in Margie’s kitchen

Margie and Mike in their professional clothes

8455366788_24c937d95d_o — Act I, Scene 3 in Mike’s doctor office

Mike and Kate, dressed for home; Margie ready for a party

8454260871_8e64857447_o — Act II, Scene 2 in Mike and Kate’s living room for the confrontation

Dottie and Stevie ready for bingo

8455374852_487f1df14c_o — Act II, Scene 2 at bingo in the church basement

Special appreciation to Becky Scholtec who embraced Margie’s discomfort and wore the ill-fitting and inappropriate party dress – completely wrong for the occasion but perfect for the scene.

Click here to read about my work with Good People.