South Camden Theatre Company

2005

South Camden Theatre Company

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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A Polish men's club in Camden shows the wear of age as the city changes and the complexion of the neighborhood changes with it. Set in the 1960's and 1990's we see how our blue collar cities changed and some crumbled.

Bravo Theatre Productions

1999

Bravo Theatre Productions NY South Camden Theatre Company Camden, NJ

Hansen Publishing Group, 2009

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Last Rites" takes us back to the Camden, New Jersey of 1967, a city where today's high crime, unemployment and abandonment have not yet come to light. We go back to the world of a local couple, Walt and Sue Evanuk, owners of a shipbuilder's taproom blocks away from one of the cities largest employers, the New York Shipbuilding Company. Act One introduces us to the locals, Walt and Sue, who are an older couple considering retirement, Whitey and Pete and their wives, who are two shipbuilders who are about to be caught up in the oncoming situation and The "Father" and Tim, two parish priests from the local church who have a large parish that soon will be filled with much larger problems. We see the old world of the 1940's blue collar cities, one filled with camaraderie and joy despite the hard working life that the men need to lead to keep their row homes safe and secure. We see a world where the local bar and owners are more like a second home and family and the fiber of the American city is secure. Rumors have plagued the "yard", as the locals call it, for years and no one believes it ever will ever close. At the end of the first act, though, their lives changes in an instant. Act Two takes us to a very different Camden and we see that the previously safe streets were now becoming more dangerous, as crime and unemployment now creep in. We see the drinking that had been a happy release in the pre-closing world now become crutches to men that no longer have jobs to go to and now feel helpless. We see the parish priests, so secure in their faith and parish now question what has happened to their parishioners and their actual faith itself. We see this city has now changed and that real peoples lives would never be the same. "Last Rites" drops the reader right into the middle of this time and we see what happens when life pulls the rug out from under the neighborhood. We also see how this tragedy is repeating itself today in countless cities and homes in the United States as more and more workers are laid off in a terrible economy.

1997

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Brick Playhouse, Philadelphia, PA

1998

Brick Playhouse, Philadelphia, PA

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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A young writer looks for a father-like figure in his life when his own father rejects his ambition. He meets a theatre critic who has a son who he is estranged from and we see what happens when "acquaintances" try for a deeper relationship.

Rowan University

2006

Rowan University Rutgers University South Camden Theatre Company

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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We see four stories about teens and 20 something's in today's America. From college to Columbine, Iraq War siblings to a 15 year old suicide victim we see today's youth with all of their burdens and troubles.