Last night I got a chance to spy on a rehearsal for the summer show I’m most excited about, Sojourn Theatre’s Good.

Good is loosely based on Brecht’s Good Person of Szechuan; in Sojourn’s version, several gods come to earth searching for a genuinely “good” person, and when they find one, a young woman named Lucy, they bequeath her a car dealership. She is then challenged to run the dealership for a year while maintaining her goodness.

The most immediately interesting thing about this show is that it’s actually staged in the Wentworth Subaru dealership—Artistic Director Michael Rohd told me that Wentworth is a fifth-generation family owned business, and one of the family members happens to be a fan of the company. So, lucky for Sojourn, they’ve been given the after-hours run of the place, and they’re getting some amazing use out of it.

The plot of the show is revealed within the first ten minutes or so, and then the audience is guided through the building to see the story retold from various perspectives. Each character’s perspective is presented in a different style, with the style relating to how the character perceives him or herself. For example, in a scene I saw last night, a character who sees himself as sort of an “antihero” gets the full film-noir treatment, complete with shadowy silhouettes and vampy femmes fatales.

The show’s LA-based designer told me that she came up to Portland specifically to work on this show because it’s more exciting than anything going on in LA right now—she cited as an example a video created for the show by Immersive Media, which uses magic (?) to create a 360-degree projection of Portland.

I didn’t see the whole thing, but I’m going to go out on a limb: This is going to be a very good show. These people are serious about what they’re doing, and they’re doing it right. Get tickets early, there are only 30 spots for each performance.

Opens June 10, runs Thurs-Sun 8:30 pm, Wentworth Subaru Service Center,
130 SE 7th Ave (at Ash), $10-15, reservations at Brown Paper Tickets or call 971-544-0464.