Camino Real

About “Camino Real”

In this phantasmagorical play, the Camino Real is depicted as a long highway, a dead end, a police state in a vaguely Latin American country, a nightmare, and an inescapable condition. Characters from history and literature inhabit a place where corruption, starvation, indifference, and greed have immobilized anyone who tries to escape, until the archetypal Kilroy arrives as a sailor and all-American guy with "a heart as big as the head of baby," who is robbed, conned, turned into a patsy, and nearly breaks but not quite.