Camino Real (play)
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Camino Real (pronounced Ka-mee-no Ray-al) is a play by Tennessee Williams. The setting is the main plaza of a poor town somewhere in the Spanish-speaking world. The town is surrounded by desert, and transportation to the outside world is sporadic. It is a large cast (40) including many famous literary characters borrowed by Williams that appear in dream sequences. The cast of characters includes Esmeralda (see The Hunchback of Notre Dame), Don Quixote and his partner Sancho, Marguerite Gautier (see The Lady of the Camellias), Camille, Casanova, Lord Byron, among others. A young American visitor, Kilroy, fulfills some of the functions of a narrator, as does Gutman, manager of the hotel whose terrace occupies part of the stage. The play goes through a series of confusing and almost logic-defying events, including the revival of the gypsy's daughter's virginity and then the loss of it again. It is thought by many to be Williams' best work and is undeniably his most artistically unusual. A main theme that it deals with is coming to terms with the thought of growing older and possibly becoming irrelevant. It was first produced on Broadway in 1953; Elia Kazan was the director and Anna Sokolow was assistant to the director.
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The Plays of Tennessee Williams |
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Adam and Eve on a Ferry, And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens, At Liberty, Auto Da Fé, Baby Doll (screenplay), Battle of Angels, Beauty Is the Word, Camino Real, Cairo! Shanghai! Bombay!, Candles to the Sun, The Case of the Crushed Petunias, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Chalky White Substance, Clothes for a Summer Hotel, Creve Coeur, The Dark Room, Demolition Downtown, The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, The Fat Man's Wife, The Frosted Glass Coffin, Fugitive Kind, Garden District, The Gentleman Callers (screenplay), The Glass Menagerie, Grand, Hello from Bertha, A House Not Meant to Stand, I Can't Imagine Tomorrow, In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel, I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix, Kingdom of Earth / Seven Descents of Myrtle, Kirche, Küche und Kinder (play), The Lady of Larkspur Lotion, The Last of My Solid Gold Watches, Lifeboat Drill, The Long Goodbye, Lord Byron's Love Letter (libretto), The Magic Tower, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, Moony's Kid Don't Cry, The Mutilated, The Night of the Iguana, Not about Nightingales, The Notebook of Trigorin, Now the Cats with Jewelled Claws, The One Exception, Orpheus Descending, Out Cry, The Palooka, A Perfect Anaysis Given by a Parrot, Period of Adjustment, The Pink Room, Portait of a Madonna, The Purification, The Red Devil Battery Sign, The Rose Tattoo, Something Unspoken, Slapstick Tragedy (The Mutilated and The Gnädiges Fräulein), Something Cloudy, Something Clear, Spring Storm, Stairs to the Roof, Steps Must be Gentle, A Streetcar Named Desire, Suddenly, Last Summer, Summer and Smoke, Summer at the Lake, Small Craft Warnings, Sweet Bird of Youth, Tiger Tail, This Is (An Entertainment), This is Peaceable Kingdom/Good Luck God, This Property is Condemned, Three Players of a Summer Game, Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton, The Two-Character Play, Vieux Carré, Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis?, You Touched Me |