by Samantha Sumler
Ancient Greek philosopher Plato theorized that there are two worlds: the physical world in which we live and the world of forms, where the invisible, perfect world of ideas exists. The highest form is the Form of the Good. But what does authentically striving for “good” mean, and how do we humans do that? And what does it mean to be human?
Opening at the end of July, Monticello Opera House will present the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire’s play, “Good People.” And returning performance artist and theater producer Kevin Carr describes the production as “a dream cast and dream project.”
Carr admits that the arts were a whole new world for him as he was growing up. “I came from a working-class Irish immigrant family, and we weren’t an arts family at all,” Carr says. He admits that he is the only one in his family to catch that ‘artistic bug’. “But I ended up performing with the Boston Symphony and the Opera Company of Boston… And I definitely liked it.”
And while he was serious about playing the piano back then, thinking he might even study music in college, Carr found practicing the piano very lonely. So he joined the theater club. “It was incredibly social,” Carr explains, stating that it allowed him to come out of his shell. “I was incredibly shy and not very popular, and theater gave me a chance to grow and develop my confidence, which is what every kid needs.”
Carr’s high school English teacher took the students on trips to see plays in downtown Boston. “That’s where I really caught the theater bug, and I’ve been a lifer ever since.” He would go on to study theater at Ithaca College and eventually complete his Ph.D. in English at Florida State Universityin 2013.
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