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Over the Festival’s 71 year history, Tennessee Williams’ Camino Real has taken the stage five times, with widely different artistic approaches. Click through the following years in our online archive to see images and information on those various productions.
Camino Real
Camino Real
John Guare wrote in his iconic introduction to the 2008 New Directions publication of Camino Real that the play "has a very small bull's eye. It's difficult to hit, but when you do, when you do—the world's a brand new place." I agree. In Tennessee’s own words: “To me the appeal of this work is its unusual degree of freedom. When it began to get under way I felt a new sensation of release, as if I could "ride out" like a tenor sax taking breaks in a Dixieland combo or a piano in a bop session.
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