“You’ve better be ready for a ride
because the scenes are terrifying
and they’re real.”
If the truth is stranger than fiction, perhaps reality is more suspenseful. That premise is put to
the test in the play Charlie Victor Romeo. Written by Robert
Berger, Patrick Daniels, and Irving Gregory, the play opens the
11th season for South Camden
Theatre Company in October.
Charlie Victor Romeo takes actual transcripts from the “black
box” cockpit voice recorders
of six airplanes which all faced
emergency and sometimes fatal
situations. Actors relive these
terrifying moments in the sky
exactly as they played out in real
life. This fascinating play won
a pair of Drama Desk Awards
NewJerseyStage.com
in 2000, including one for Outstanding Unique Theatrical Experience. South Camden Theatre Company’s production is
the regional premiere of this fine
work, which is rarely performed.
The cast includes Eric Carter,
Kevin Doyle, Jason Cutts, Stacy
Skinner, Tyler S. Elliott, Cindy
Starcher, and Paul Sollimo. The
production is directed by Joseph M. Paprzycki, the Founding
Producing Artistic Director of
the company, who saw the play
staged in New York in 2003.
“My friend called me and said
you have to get up here and see
this play,” recalled Paprzycki.
“I saw it in the East Village in a
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