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Camino Real

Riverside Theatre, 2008

written by Tennessee Williams

sets by Russell Michael Schramm
costumes by Jessica Pabst
lighting by Lucas Krech
sound by Christian Frederickson
dramaturgy by Heather Denyer
production stage manager, Paige Williams

with Marc Bovino, Jess Burkle, Doug Cheesman, Joe Curnutte, Frank De Julio, Samantha Desz, Christine Donnelly, Corinne Edgerly, Gwynne Flanagan, Tara Schoch Frederickson, Philip Goodwin, Manon Halliburton, Caroline Kaplan, Amy Kersten, Zach Kleinsmith, Patrick McCaffrey, Klemen Novak, Jade Rothman, Bob Saietta, Alexis Savino, Leo Shvedsky, Skyler Sullivan, Scott Sweatt & Stephanie Wright Thompson

El Camino Real (The Royal Highway) originally stretched from Santa Fe to Chihuahua, Mexico, but in Williams’ 1953 controversial masterpiece, it terminates in a paranoid and purgatorial landscape where mythic has-beens and never-weres decadently await their destinies. Not seen in New York City in over 30 years, this rarely performed classic is a fantastical allegory that reminds us of the eternal dilemmas we all must grapple with at some point on our own personal Camino Reals.