Camino Real

Camino Real

    Alternative Title: Ten Blocks on the Camino Real

    Author: Tennessee Williams

    First Performance: 1953, New York

    Published: 1948; rev. 1953

    Genre: Drama in 16 scenes and a prologue

    Setting: Latin American town, indeterminate period

    Cast: 21m, 7f, extras

Kilroy, the mythical American sailor of Second World War graffiti (‘Kilroy was here’), finds himself trapped within the walls of an unnamed Latin American town. Here, on Camino Real (meaning both ‘Royal Road’ and ‘Real Road’), ‘Nothing wild or honest is tolerated’, and all the legendary and fictional characters Kilroy encounters are victims of unfulfilled longing. Jacques [sic] Casanova knows he can never still his sexual yearnings. Lord Byron, who describes Shelley's cremation, is trapped in his...

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