Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (Broadway Theatre Archive)
Martin Sheen stars as the eternal American G.I. Kilroy, a poetic soul condemned to spiritual death, in Tennessee Williams’s allegorical one-act play. In a dreamlike fictitious L atin American country, a worn-out Casanova, a Camille living on memories, a Byron pitiful in hi s disillusioned pride, and others less famous live out a hopeless existence. Into this world co mes Kilroy, an ex-boxer and perpetual fall guy, who asks so little and always gets short-change d, but never gives up hope. He is finally conned, or almost, into despairing subjection like th e rest. “An allegory about people removed from time and geography…” –The New York Times. With Lotte Lenya, Tom Aldredge, Michael Baseleon, and Albert Dekker. END Martin Sheen stars in this Tennessee Williams one-act. What is the Camino Real? According to one character, it is “a funny paper read backwards,” while another says everyone must figure it out for himself. Yes, we are in the world of allegory, in a melancholy dreamlike play set in an undefined Latin American country. Sheen plays an amiable Everysoldier, Kilroy. The play unfolds in 10 blocks, each a little vignette, that Kilroy winds his way through. The Camino Real is empty, sad, and menacing–so much so that the dead are simply scooped up by laughing street cleaners. As for the rest, well, figure it out for yourself. This is a fine production, but viewers will need to have a high tolerance for the kind of play where characters actually address each other as “You, Player of the Blue Guitar.” Ten Blocks on the Camino Real is recommended for just that segment of Tennessee Williams fans. –Ali Davis
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