If you’re looking for a cozy activity this winter evening, look no further than Flashback Theater Co.’s production of When We Get Good Again, running February 20-23, 2025 at Flashback’s downtown Somerset office. The administrative space will be transformed into an intimate playspace, decorated to look like the play’s setting: a coffee shop. Cumberland Roots Coffee will have their mobile coffee truck parked outside of the show, so audiences can enjoy a refreshment before the performance.

Flashback Theater Co. is founded on the passionate pursuit of bringing professional theater to the Lake Cumberland region and uplifting our local talent. When We Get Good Again features a cast of actors and crew members from Somerset, Monticello, Science Hill, and beyond. This fringe production will give audiences the opportunity to see actors up close and personal, encouraging them to see themselves in the characters.

James McLindon’s When We Get Good Again is a morally complex story, written to reflect the growing complexity of modern life. Tracy is an ambitious college student from an underprivileged background, doing her best to be a good person. Struggling to balance getting good grades and keeping up with her day job, she finds herself willing to take a chance on would-be-academic Perry’s ambitious scheme to charge wealthy students for term papers. Along the way, Tracy meets students like Roy, whose priority is on the hockey rink, and Nadiya, an exchange student whose academic rigor doesn’t translate into perfect English. She begins to realize that the morality of her choices, or anyone else’s, aren’t exactly black and white. This production is perfect for anyone questioning their own intentions, and striving to be the best person they can be.

Flashback Theater Co. is a semi-professional theater company, meaning that actors, designers, and directors are compensated for their time and contributions to stage work. The company believes that by paying artists, creative talent is encouraged to stay in the area long-term, growing the community’s cultural resources and expanding the opportunities available for entertainment and education in the region. Though based in Pulaski County, Flashback Theater engages artists and audience members from the surrounding counties of Russell, Adair, Casey, Lincoln, Laurel, Wayne, McCreary, and beyond.

The cast of When We Get Good Again is made up of Bailey Patterson of Jabez (Tracy), Thomas Alvey of Somerset (Perry), Jillian Griffin of Somerset (Roy), Frosina Bogeska, an exchange student from North Macedonia, currently residing in Monticello (Nadiya). The understudy cast includes Ruby Harrison of Somerset (Tracy u/s), Sam Enderle of Somerset (Perry u/s), John Langford of Somerset (Roy u/s), and Jaycee Daulton of Science Hill (Nadiya u/s).

Bailey Patterson (Tracy)
Bailey (she/her) is excited to be a part of her first Fringe show at FbTC! Bailey graduated from UK with her degree in Theatre. In Lexington, she played Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love (UK DoTD) and Mary in Murder on the Orient Express (Studio Players). Home at Flashback, she’s played roles including Rosalind- As You Like It,  Celine- The American Parade, and Lydia- Christmas at Pemberley.

 

Thomas Alvey (Perry)
Alvey (he/they/any) is the Fine Arts Coordinator at Somerset Community College. They are excited to return to the stage since The Book of Will in February of 2023. FbTC Acting Credits: The Book of Will (Ben Jonson), The Mousetrap (Det. Sgt. Trotter), and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (Hamlet), among others.

 

Jillian Griffin (Roy)
Jillian is a Junior at Southwestern High School where she is very involved in music and the arts, especially the high school’s band program. She has worked with Flashback Theater Co. before on their productions of Miracle on 34th Street and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and is so grateful for the opportunity to work with them again and help bring this meaningful story to life.

 

Frosina Bogeska (Nadiya)
Frosina is an exchange student from North Macedonia and shares her love through theater. She has been acting in plays and helping backstage since she was 9. She is very excited to be a part of Flashback this season. 

 

Ruby Harrison (Tracy Understudy)
Ruby is a freshman at Pulaski County High School.  Previous performances include: Murders at Highcliffe House (Harry); Holka Polka (Fairy Godmother); Beauty and The Beast (Narrator 3).  Ruby always enjoys her time during the making of shows and strives to do her best. 

 

Sam Enderle (Perry Understudy)
Sam Enderle is new to Flashback, portraying Wesley in Count Dracula last fall. He made his stage debut in the 2nd Annual Ten Minute and Short Play Festival at Somerset Community College in 2024.

 

John Langford (Roy Understudy)
John is a student at Southwestern High School.  He previously performed in The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley (Brian) and The Comedy of Errors (Antipholus of Epheseus). He enjoys working on movies with his friends and hopes to eventually write a screenplay or stage play.  

 

Jaycee Daulton (Nadiya Understudy)
Jaycee is excited to make a return to the world of performing in When We Get Good Again at Flashback.  She is a senior at Southwestern High School and plans on pursuing a theater arts degree at the University of Louisville.  She previously performed at Flashback in the junior cast of As You Like It (Rosalind).  

Billy Christopher Maupin of Monticello directs the play. Renate Dopp of Somerset will stage manage, with design support from Sommer Schoch of Russell Springs.

Billy Christopher Maupin (Director)
FbTC: Sweeney Todd, All Together Now!; Brother Wolf, The39 Steps, The Mousetrap. Other directing: The Children’s Hour (Tabby Award), Carrie the Musical (RTCC Award), Preludes (RTCC Award). Upcoming: world premiere, Teacher, Teach starring Jacqueline Jones (HATTheatre). Associate Artist, Carpenter Science Theatre Company. Co-founder and Associate Artistic Director Emeritus, 5th Wall Theatre.

Renate Dopp (Stage Manager/Sound Design)
FbTC veteran stage manager and occasional performer.  Much love to her husband and children for their support during production.  Favorite stage management highlights: Count Dracula, Brother Wolf, The 39 Steps, Sweeney Todd, Every Christmas Story Ever Told (2016 & 2021), Pirates, and R&G.  Previous FBTC performances include Mary: Her Story (Elder Mary), Little Shop of Horrors (voice of Audrey II), A Nightmare on Backstreet (Teddy Crooner) and season announcement cabarets.

Sommer Schoch (Set/Costume/Lighting Designer) is the founder and Producing
Artistic Director of FbTC. In a decade of Flashback history: she has directed 18 productions; overseen the development of programming that drives artists to develop their skills and talents through masterclasses, workshops, and new play development; and established connections to a community that values experiencing art in our world. Before FbTC, Sommer graduated from Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music with dual Master’s degrees in Arts Administration and Business Administration.

Over the past ten years since its first production in 2015, Flashback Theater Co. has built a community of artists and audience members that value artistic pursuits that speak to the soul. It takes a village to put on any production, but artists return to the practice over and over again in the hopes of inspiring curiosity and empathy in their community. You can support local artists and community dialogue when you buy a ticket for When We Get Good Again. Show up with an open heart, enjoy a warm drink, and prepare for stimulating questions.

Production Information

When We Get Good Again
By James McLindon
Directed by Billy Christopher Maupin
February 20-23, 2025
209 E. Mt Vernon St. Suite A Somerset, Kentucky

Poor but brilliant college student Tracy needs straight A’s to get into a top law school that will forgive her mountain of academic debt so she can be a lawyer for the poor. With the economic odds stacked against her, she tries to rationalize her job writing term papers for wealthy students. But she’s not sure she can do it. When We Get Good Again explores the current age in which personal integrity seems to be eroding before our eyes, and each day seems to bring new headlines about politicians who lie as naturally as they breathe and parents who buy their child’s admission into the college of their choice. In a world of privilege and deprivation, is it still immoral to cheat in order to level a playing field that is already supposed to be flat?

Performance Dates and Times

Thursday, February 20th, 8:30 p.m.

Friday, February 21st, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, February 22nd, 2:30 p.m.*

Saturday, February 22nd, 8:30 p.m

Sunday, February 23rd, 8:30 p.m

 

*denotes Understudy Performance

 

Ticket Information


Tickets can be purchased online at: https://fbtc.ticketleap.com/good-again/, by visiting the box office in person at 209A E Mount Vernon St. during office hours, or by calling the box office at (888) 394-3282, ext. 1. Box office hours are Tuesday through Friday, 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Single ticket pricing for the 11th Season of Flashback productions will be:
Adults – $23 Advance, $25 Door
Students – $12 Advance, $15 Door
Seniors – $20 Advance and Door

Season Sponsors & Supporters

Flashback Theater Co. is grateful to our 2024-25 Starlight Sponsors: Applied Behavioral Advancements, The City of Somerset, Kentucky Tourism, Arts & Heritage Cabinet, and The Shubert Foundation. Spotlight Sponsors: M&W Printing and CHI Saint Joseph London; as well as our Footlight Sponsors: David Daring Rentals, Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital & Lake Cumberland Residency Programs, First & Farmers National Bank, The Weigel Family, United Cumberland Bank, T. Ronald Kidd Trust, Somerset Community College, Buffalo Wings & Rings, and Citizens National Bank.

The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, provides operating support to Flashback Theater Co. with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

When We Get Good Again is produced with support from design sponsor Alton Blakley Family of Dealerships.