Production Will Open February 10 and run through February 26 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8p.m. and Sundays at 2p.m.
CAMDEN, NJ — January 23, 2012 — South Camden Theatre Company, a nonprofit professional theatre organization located in Camden, New Jersey continues its season of “Tenn X Ten” featuring works written by and inspired by Tennessee Williams in celebration of the centennial of his birth.
The first three-week production of 2012 features the world premiere of “Tennessee’s Final Curtain” on Friday February 10 at 8p.m. “Tennessee’s Final Curtain is written by South Camden Theatre Company’s founder and producing artistic director Joseph M. Paprzycki and directed by Allan Radway the Producing Artistic Director of Simpatico Theatre Project in Philadelphia.
Joseph M. Paprzycki states, “My play ‘Tennessee’s Final Curtain’ allows you into Tennessee’s personal world of ghosts and demons on the night he died; a death that is still controversial to this day. This production is the result of over twelve years of work, staged readings in three states and an off-off Broadway workshop production in New York. I invite the audience to come with us on our journey to see the inspiration for his greatest characters and the reason Williams was known in some circles as ‘His Greatness’”.
“Tennessee’s Final Curtain” reunites four theatre professionals who all started their careers together at Philadelphia’s now closed Brick Playhouse in 1997. Joseph M. Paprzycki’s first full length play to be produced, “Understudies” had a cast that included the professional stage debuts of Allen Radway and Tenley Bank and the earlier work of William Rahill. This foursome worked again in 2007 and also staged a reading of “Tennessee’s Final Curtain” inNew York City at the Dramatists Guild to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Tennessee Williams’s death.
Now fifteen years later, Allen is the Producing Artistic Director of Simpatico Theatre Project in Philadelphia and has taken the directing reigns to bring the world premiere of the play to South Camden Theatre Company by bringing all four back together at New Jersey’s newest theatre opened in 2010 the Waterfront South Theatre. Additionally, Allen most recently starred in The Wilma Theatre Company’s “Our Class”. Tenley Bank has worked at Theatre Exile and BRAT productions and returns to acting in this world premiere. William Rahill continues to act for South Camden Theatre Company, Theatre Exile, Iron Age Theatre Company and others through the region.
Performances will be held Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 p.m. and Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. at the 96-seat Waterfront South Theatre located at 400 Jasper Street in Camden, New Jersey. Tickets are available for purchase for $15 online at http://www.southcamdentheatre.org, by calling 1-866-811-4111 or at the door.
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