Last Thursday, I realized I was officially running out of time to see West End theatre and decided to buy tickets to see Imelda Staunton (Professor Umbridge of Harry Potter movie fame...also, she went to RADA!) in Good People at the Noel Coward Theatre. Good People is an American import written by David Lindsay-Abaire who also wrote Rabbit Hole and Shrek: The Musical. The play is aggressively American and takes place in two extremely different socio-economic spheres of Boston. Jason came with me, and we were consistently the only people laughing. I think we just related to the sense of humor better than the British audience. The play was one of the funniest plays I have ever seen, but also had strong social commentary about one's ability to overcome a low class childhood in the slums. Margie (Imelda Staunton), mother to an adult, disabled daughter, loses her job and finds an ex-boyfriend who has made a cushy life for himself outside the slums Margie never left. It's actually really hard to explain without ruining the plot, which has one of the best character-background twists I have ever seen, but it was a brilliant, funny, biting play. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Side note: The American dialects were SPOT on. They worked with several nuances of a Boston accent as well as a D.C. dialect. Really really good.