Synopsis
In Brecht’s comic play-with-music, rumors have reached the higher realm that it is impossible to live in the earthly world and remain good. A trio of bumbling gods descends to earth with the mission of finding a single good person, and, if they do, the world can remain as it is. On their first night, they need lodging. A waterseller tries to help, leading them to Shen Teh, a good-hearted prostitute, who is the only person who will help them out. Delighted with finding a good person, they give her 1,000 silver dollars, enough to buy her way out of prostitution and into a small tobacco shop. However, as a shop owner, she is taken advantage of by everyone, and finds herself forced to invent a “cousin,” disguising herself as a savvy businessman so that she can remain good and protect her resources. Her plan is complicated when she falls in love with an opportunistic pilot. When her neighbors begin missing the kind Shen-Teh, they accuse the “cousin” of causing her disappearance. In the final scene, she confronts the gods with the question “Is it possible to be good and remain good in a world that values profit over kindness and rewards greed and brutality rather than compassion and goodness?”



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MINNEAPOLIS, MN OCTOBER 27: Frank Theatre’s A Good Person of Setzuan” dress rehearsal on October 27, 2016 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. © Tony Nelson

MINNEAPOLIS, MN OCTOBER 27: Frank Theatre’s A Good Person of Setzuan” dress rehearsal on October 27, 2016 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. © Tony Nelson

MINNEAPOLIS, MN OCTOBER 27: Frank Theatre’s A Good Person of Setzuan” dress rehearsal on October 27, 2016 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. © Tony Nelson

MINNEAPOLIS, MN OCTOBER 27: Frank Theatre’s A Good Person of Setzuan” dress rehearsal on October 27, 2016 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. © Tony Nelson

MINNEAPOLIS, MN OCTOBER 27: Frank Theatre’s A Good Person of Setzuan” dress rehearsal on October 27, 2016 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. © Tony Nelson

MINNEAPOLIS, MN OCTOBER 27: Frank Theatre’s A Good Person of Setzuan” dress rehearsal on October 27, 2016 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. © Tony Nelson

MINNEAPOLIS, MN OCTOBER 27: Frank Theatre’s A Good Person of Setzuan” dress rehearsal on October 27, 2016 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. © Tony Nelson

MINNEAPOLIS, MN SEPTEMBER 28 : Promo photos for Frank Theatre’s production of “The Good Person of Sertzuan” on September 28, 2016 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. © Tony Nelson

MINNEAPOLIS, MN SEPTEMBER 28 : Promo photos for Frank Theatre’s production of “The Good Person of Sertzuan” on September 28, 2016 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. © Tony Nelson

MINNEAPOLIS, MN SEPTEMBER 28 : Promo photos for Frank Theatre’s production of “The Good Person of Sertzuan” on September 28, 2016 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. © Tony Nelson