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...That is the poignant internal music of Camino Real, the sound of one heart breaking. Unfortunately, the play is too diffuse and episodic to record that sound resonantly. Williams oscillated between writing an ode to the romantic imagination and a bitter philippic against life's raw deal. El Camino Real was once the royal highway from Santa Fe to Chihuahua, Mexico. In the play it becomes a literal dead end, a pothole of a tropical police state where the street cleaners lie in wait to cart away the appointed victims. These include some of the great romantics of history...
...Clouds in a Gale. The play is Williams' most ambitious departure from realism; it also makes enormous imaginative demands on the director. In 1953, when Camino Real was first presented, Williams indicated the scope of those demands in his preface: "My desire was to give audiences my own sense of something wild and unrestricted that ran like water in the mountains, or clouds changing shape in a gale, or the continually dissolving and transforming images of a dream...
Thursday, October 9 NET PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8:30-10 p.m.). Tennessee Williams' one-act play, Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (which later became his three-act allegory, Camino Real) stars Martin Sheen as Kilroy, Lotte Lenya as the Gypsy, Hurd Hatfield as Jacques Casanova and Carrie Nye as Marguerite Gautier. Repeat...
...trend toward revivals, The Front Page is reopening this fall and will be joined by Harvey (James Stewart) and Our Town (Henry Fonda). An all-American series at Lincoln Center's repertory theater includes The Time of Your Life, Camino Real, Beggar on Horseback, plus Sam Shepard's new play, Operation Sidewinder, a wild satire of the contemporary U.S. scene, featuring an Air Force computer in the form of a sidewinder rattlesnake. Comedy is in short supply, but Mike Nichols is directing The Memorandum, a French farce about a determined bachelor and the girl who upsets his ordered...
...CAMINO REAL, Tennessee Williams' allegory of our times as viewed in a timeless dream, boasts such memorable characters as Casanova, Camille, Byron and Kilroy. At the Provincetown Playhouse, Provincetown, Mass...