CURTAIN CALL: An attempt to stave off adulthood

This week's indie-theater roundup includes South Camden Theatre Co.'s Tennessee's Final Curtain Call, Plays and Players' August Wilson's Joe Turner Come and Gone and The Playdaters, performed by Matchbox Theatre Project.

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CURTAIN CALL: An attempt to stave off adulthood

POSTED: Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 1:00 PM

Filed Under: Arts Theater

Each week, Michael Gold breezes past those big-name theater companies to turn a spotlight on Philly's indie stages.

In spite of the numerous sordid details gleaned from Tennessee Williams’ personal life, biographers have yet to fully exhume the circumstances surrounding his death. Nearly 20 years after the fact, the official record states that the renowned playwright choked on an eyedrop bottle cap in a Manhattan hotel. But numerous prescription drugs were later found in Williams’ suite, and some of the writer’s family members have claimed Williams was murdered.

Now, South Camden Theatre Company is throwing its own take on Williams’ tragic death into the mix. On Friday, the company premieres Tennesee’s Final Curtain, a look at the troubled scribe’s last moments penned by artistic director Joseph M. Paprzycki. Simpatico Theatre artistic director Allen Radway directs Paprzycki’s in-depth glimpse into Williams’ mind as he wrestles with the demons plaguing him at the end of his life. Given the playwright’s countless contributions to the American stage, it’s a wonder his enigmatic passing hasn’t been staged sooner.

Feb. 10-26, $15, Waterfront South Theatre, 400 Jasper St., Camden, 856-409-0365, southcamdentheatre.org.

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