THE STORY: Evan returns to Helensburgh, West Scotland, home to the nation’s nuclear defense program and once a thriving holiday resort. A place he’s been trying to avoid. Haunted by his past and afraid of his future, he finds Helen working at the Seaview Hotel. GOOD WITH PEOPLE is a haunting two-hander from one of Scotland’s great writers, tracing one town’s path of personal and political destruction.
“…beautiful, deceptive…Though this two-character Scottish drama [is] less than an hour long, it is likely to have an enduring and varied afterlife in the shadows of your mind. If that makes GOOD WITH PEOPLE sound like a ghost story, it is in a sense, though it contains no elements of the classically supernatural. It is instead a story of how people haunt their own lives, failing to be entirely present, no matter where they are…GOOD WITH PEOPLE is short, but it’s anything but small.” —The New York Times.
“A brief, sneaky, skillfully measured duet, David Harrower’s GOOD WITH PEOPLE works its minimalist magic on you when you least expect it.” —Time Out New York.
“Packed with rich writing…makes a virtue of brevity, compressing its action into a rush of dialogue and imagery that strikes with the force of an avalanche…fashions an entire world on a rectangle of hotel carpet. “ —Backstage.
“[Harrower] uses his talent for high-precision dialogue to very funny effect…[GOOD WITH PEOPLE] moves deftly from linguistic games to social commentary, and a touching study of two characters learning to free themselves from their past. It’s a tremendous piece of work.” —The Guardian (UK).
