Good Enough
How good is good enough? Sometimes life’s biggest questions confront you in seemingly mundane spaces: third period of a high school drama class, the sidelines of a soccer match, the middle of a busy Chicago intersection. Good Enough is one woman’s funny and brutally honest attempt to do right in confusing times. Because you can be all about your community and the greater good, but when push comes to shove, you look out for your kid first.
“3 Stars! Do things balance out in the scales of goodness, or are all our attempts to be better people inevitably thwarted by a never-ending tangle of more questions and more problems? Leavened with self-deprecating wit and with cellist Donna Miller adding wry and warm musical underscoring, composed by Mike Przygoda… the crux of the piece, directed by Megan Shuchman, is Ganey wrestling with how the very notion of ‘goodness’ is never a one-size-fits-all proposition — particularly if you’re a woman. ”
“Ganey is a master storyteller, and she weaves the threads of her story into a compelling examination of goodness, identity, privilege, and community… Director Megan Shuchman and a team of designers and musicians bring the story into the dramatic realm of the theater… Under the sure direction of Megan Shuchman, Ganey’s play is an absorbing examination of what goodness means in a world full of inequity and obstacles, and how to be good when one is just too practical to be a saint.”
Good Enough
Produced by 16th Street Theatre
March 14 – April 20th, 2019
Directed by Megan Shuchman
Original Music by Mike Pryzgoda
Photos by Michael Litchfield