AS THE YEAR CHANGES OUR SEASON MOVES AHEAD!
As 2011 comes to a close, we look back to see the incredible start to our season, TENN X TEN celebrating Tennessee Williams.
Our first production, “Suddenly Last Summer”, directed by Connie Norwood, brought SCTC popular and critical acclaim along with an entirely SOLD OUT closing weekend!
Next on our stage, “Tennessee into the Future” in January, where we will bring you a rarely seen Tennessee Williams one act play, “The Case of the Crushed Petunias” that I will direct. This show will feature a young high school and college-aged cast and will serve as a “curtain raiser” for a staged reading of the Williams classic, “The Glass Menagerie”, being performed by an all African-American cast directed by Connie Norwood. This one weekend only special event will bring a Williams Festival feel to SCTC and Waterfront South. Tickets are selling well for the shows on January 20, 21 and 22. Don’t be left out!
February brings the world premiere of my play “Tennessee’s Final Curtain” directed by Simpatico Theatre Company Artistic Director, Allen Radway. “Curtain” takes you to Tennessee’s room at the Hotel Elysée on a cold February night in 1983; the night of his death. Witness his struggles with his ghosts and demons and see how his self medicating ways may have brought his phantoms “closer, not further away”. This play has been performed off-off Broadway and had readings at the Hotel Elysée and Dramatists Guild in NY.
We’ll end the season with Williams’s epic play, “The Night of the Iguana”, in which a debauched minister tries to regain his faith in himself and life against the torrid backdrop of a small Mexican resort. It is a play rarely produced and our director, Randall McCann is already cast and working on this project.
As a special event we are honored to be bring you famed international actor, Mr. Jeremy Lawrence and his play of Tennessee’s words, “Everyone Expects Me To Write Another Streetcar”: An afternoon with Tennessee Williams for one performance only on March 21st. Having seen him perform as Tennessee, I can only encourage you not to miss this event. He performs all over the world, most recently in Ireland and New Orleans and now comes to Camden to bring Tennessee to you.
Have a great holiday season and please join us in our beautiful theatre in Waterfront South.
Joseph M. Paprzycki
Producing Artistic Director
ABOUT US
South Camden Theatre Company, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. SCTC was incorporated on October 6, 2005. Contributions to SCTC in the United States are tax-exempt to the extent provided by law.
OUR MISSION
The South Camden Theatre Company, Inc., is a tax-exempt, nonprofit organization dedicated to helping revitalize the City of Camden, New Jersey by producing meaningful, professional theater in the City’s Waterfront South District.
We are committed to staging performances that entertain, elevate and inspire audiences, whether our plays are rooted in the reality of injustice, or explore the magic of human potential and show how love can transcend our differences.
We are here to serve the community— its adults and children — and we exist to provide hope for the rebirth of our city, while providing a voice and a stage for those who live, work and dream here.
THE WATERFRONT SOUTH THEATRE — OUR NEW HOME
The Waterfront South Theatre is a new 96-seat theatre spearheaded and built by Helene Pierson and Heart of Camden, a nonprofit housing organization in the Waterfront South section of Camden city. The project was generously funded by Pepe Piperno and his Domenica Foundation, as well as other kind donors.
Not only does our new space enable us to perform our own productions, but it will also give us the opportunity to host the students from neighboring schools, other theatre production companies and businesses throughout the Delaware Valley who may be in need of a space like ours. We also will be renting our rehearsal space for use by other theatre groups throughout the area as well.
ANCHORING THE REBIRTH OF A NEIGHBORHOOD
It is our dream, and the dream of those who support our efforts, that the opening of a theater in this neighborhood will bring new life to the community. This theater will serve the community and region by producing plays that make a difference and by enriching the lives of those who live, work and come to Camden.
