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Full-Length Play, Comedy / 12w, 27m
Tennessee Williams
In Tennessee Williams’ phantasmagorical play, an all-American guy finds himself in the Camino Real, a place populated by historical and literary characters, where corruption and indifference have immobilized and nearly destroyed the human spirit.
In this phantasmagorical play, the Camino Real is a dead end, a police state in a vaguely Latin American country, and an inescapable condition. Characters from history and literature – Don Quixote, Casanova, Camille, Lord Byron – inhabit a place where corruption and indifference have immobilized and nearly destroyed the human spirit. Then, into this netherworld, the archetypal Kilroy arrives – a sailor and all-American guy with “a heart as big as the head of baby.”
An unspecified Latin American country.
“A strange and disturbing drama… as eloquent and rhythmic as a piece of music.” – The New York Times
“Camino Real is a brilliant and riotous adventure. It succeeds in making tangible for all your senses the delirious pains and ecstasy of a wild dream.” – NY World-Telegram
“There are people who think that Camino Real was Tennessee Williams's best play, and I believe that they are right. It is a play that seems to have been torn out of a human soul, a tale told by an idiot signifying a great deal of suffering and a great deal of gallantry.” – Clive Barnes, The New York Times
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