Great Barrington— On Wednesday, August 26th at 7 p.m., Great Barrington Public Theater (GBPT) presents “Good Work,” a reading from GBPT Young Collaborators, written by Marlo Alexander and Bo-Violet Vig and directed by Taylor Slonaker.
It’s opening night of Noa’s brutally personal, autobiographical one-woman show about the intersection of sex and acting – and despite everyone’s certainty that it’s going to be a huge success, she’s no longer sure she has any idea what she’s talking about. The closer Noa gets to taking the stage, the more the boundaries of her closest relationships (both artistic and personal) begin to blur and collapse around her. Set within the claustrophobic world of a prestigious collegiate acting program, “Good Work” is equal parts evisceration of – and love letter to – art school culture and the precarious dynamics it cultivates: an acerbically funny, sickeningly revealing examination of what it means to seek truth within artifice.
The free reading is on Wednesday, August 26th at 7 p.m. at Saint James Place, located at 352 Main Street in Great Barrington. More information can be found online.
