I think the play sort of ties into
my own personal journey. I was
confused and saw that picture
of the angel and something just
snapped, but I didn’t quite know
what it meant yet.”
The play is loosely based on a
bunch of friends that Paprzycki
had at the time. He said he was
working at a horrible job, but had
a couple friends he hung around
with to get lunch and drinks. This
is the third of five plays he’s written based in Camden. All are different stories with different char-
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acters, but the characters here are
more or less composites of people
he knew. Looking back, the playwright says he sees some parallels with what was happening to
him during the period in which he
wrote the play.
“Could I write this play today?”
asked Paprzycki. “I don’t know.
I don’t know if I would have the
same inspiration or if the people
around me are the same… What
makes me so happy is I don’t feel
like I’m watching a play, I feel like
I’m sitting next to people in a Chi-
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