Paprzycki. “Remembering the
looks on people’s faces when they
left the first time was so gratifying and to have so many people
want to see it again is very gratifying as a playwright. When people
walked out of the show, they were
laughing and crying at the same
time.
in the play; it’s a reminder of just
how far the theatre and Camden
has come since the first production. A few blocks from the theater in 2007 one could still see
crime on a regular basis, but today
the neighborhood is much nicer
and a safe place to go. Back in
the basement, the audience sat on
“It’s wonderful to see these old friends
back on stage again.”
“I’ve made a couple of little
changes to the play,” noted the
playwright. “I think being a playwright who’s 9 years older and
having written another 10 plays or
so since we’ve produced this one,
I’m a better writer now. You learn
to hear more. I think part of it is
you hear things more as a more
experienced writer and part of it
is you hear things as a much older
person.”
Fortune Cookies is not just a
snapshot in time for the characters
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plastic chairs on a concrete floor,
while today’s audience is in nice
seats in a state-of-the-art theater.
Not only will this production have
professional sound and lighting
that greatly exceeds that of the
original, but the stage will truly resemble a Chinese restaurant and
audience members will even smell
the food coming from the kitchen.
“This is a play about real spirituality and friendship and the whole
issue of faith,” explains Paprzycki.
“What is faith? Can magic change
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