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Deep Dish Theater's Good People <br /> by Byron Woods <br /> s <br /> eT <br /> N <br /> Photo by Jonathan Young <br /> Helen Hagan and Mark Filiaci in Good People" <br /> A set of lies ends up stripped away by the end of David Lindsay-Abaire's 201 l <br /> drama Good People. Under Tony Lea's discerning direction, this uncomfortably <br /> close-up study in cultural plate tectonics places two middle-aged Southies--a <br /> man and a woman who grew up as friends through hardscrabble childhoods in <br /> the infamous south side of Boston—on different sides of the class divide in the <br /> present day. <br /> Mike (Mark Filiaci) is the one who appears to have gotten away unscathed from <br /> the coarseness, the crushing poverty and the violence of the old neighborhood <br /> as a successful endocrinologist with a requisite mansion, an intellectual wife <br /> and child. <br /> Margie (Helen Hagan) didn't. In the first scene, she's being fired from a cashier's <br /> job at a neighborhood dollar store by a manager she knew as a neighborhood <br /> kid (a solid Brian Fisher). in the second, it becomes clear, as she commiserates <br />