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had no idea this was here. This is
really great!” The theatre’s general
response is to have them tell their
friends that they just visited Cam-
den, were entertained at the the-
atre, and left unscathed. Slowly
but surely, the stigma of the city’s
history dissipates.
The home of South Camden The-
atre Company is the Waterfront
South Theatre, which celebrates its
10th anniversary this year. Locat-
ed just a block south of Broadway
and Ferry Avenues in the Water-
front South neighborhood of Cam-
den, it was the first theatre built in
Camden in more than 100 years.
The Breath of Life by David Hare
(September 4-28) and Stones In
His Pockets by Marie Jones (Octo-
ber 30 - November 23) will close
out the theatre’s 14th season and
the anniversary season begins in
February with Abigail 1702. Ev-
ery season at the theatre includes
plays lined up under a particular
theme. In addition to calling 2020
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A Season of Celebration, the plays
all have a supernatural thread that
runs through them. Croce runs
down the season for us.
“Abigail1702 (by Roberto
Aquirre-Sacasa) continues the
story of The Crucible by Arthur
Miller. The last we hear about Abi-
gail Williams, the protagonist in
The Crucible, is that her and an-
other girl had just robbed Rever-
end Parrish and they’ve taken the
high road to Boston. What Abi-
gail 1702 does is pick up the sto-
ry ten years later and where her
life has turned. There are some
spectral visitors that keep coming
up for her.”
“Terminus (by Gabriel Jason
Dean) is set in the South in a small
cabin with a grandmother and
her grandson is mulatto. She’s
kind of on the edges of what you
may think is Alzheimer’s, but she
has spectral visitors as well. And
there’s a secret that’s revealed in
these visits.”
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