Camino Real
Camino Real
Located at Main Stage Theatre
2025 Season July 17th – August 3rd
Obie award-winner Dustin Wills brings (what New York Magazine calls) his “mad scientist zeal” back to Williamstown to reimagine this sprawling Tennessee Williams epic written in the lead up to the McCarthy trials. Camino Real, Williams said, is “...a play that is less written than painted. A play that is painted? Why not! At least I could try. I did. And here it is.”
The Camino Real is a dead end, a police state in an imagined Latin-Mediterranean-American country, and an inescapable condition. Characters from history and literature such as Don Quixote, Casanova, and Camille inhabit this phantasmagoric plaza where corruption and alienation have nearly destroyed the human spirit. Enter Kilroy, a prize-winning boxer and all-American fella with “a heart as big as the head of a baby.” In an ambitious first significant revival since the ‘99 Williamstown production, Camino Real unfolds over a series of sixteen dizzying “blocks” and is a clarion call to the Romantics of the world—drowning in an ocean of cynicism, suspicion, and censorship—to use their indefatigable spirit as a life raft.
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Written by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Dustin Wills
To Purchase a weekend pass $500.00
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Weekend 1
Saturday, July 19th, 1:00pm
Saturday, July 19th, 7:00pm
Sunday, July 20th, 2:00pm
Weekend 2
Saturday, July 26th, 1:00pm
Saturday, July 26th, 7:00pm
Sunday, July 27th, 2:00pm
Weekend 3
Saturday, August 2nd, 1:00pm
Saturday, August 2nd, 7:00pm
Sunday, August 3rr, 2:00pm
