John Guare's essay on Tennessee Williams' Camino Real in the New Directions paperback entitled: "An Introduction in Eighteen Blocks" contains much information on the play's development and production history, and is also an excellent analysis of the work.
Guare's essay on Camino Real concludes with this beautiful advice:
"Always keep a Camino Real in your typewriter, computer, yellow legal pad--whatever you write your plays on-- keep working on the impossible play--the play written for the freaks and the outlaws, the dreamers without a plan, the fugitives, the desperados, yourselves. Writing for them might not make you the big bucks, but they'll keep you alive." |
