Camino Real, El [Span.,=The Royal Road]. There are Camino Reals in most former Spanish possessions, including four in former Spanish territory in the United States. Probably the best-known American trail of this name, also called the Mission Trail, leads north from San Diego to San Francisco and beyond, running some 530 mi (853 km). The name is most commonly applied to the part of the trail north of Los Angeles. El Camino Real connected California's Franciscan missions and ran through such settlements as Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, San Juan Capistrano, Carmel, and Sonoma. The missions were mainly founded by two priests, Fr. Junípero Serra and his successor, Fr. Fermín Lasuén, in the period from 1769 to 1803. Together they established 18 of the 21 missions, many of them still extant and some extensively renovated, that flourished until the Mexican government ordered their secularization in 1833. Today, the surviving mission churches are houses of worship, tourist attractions, and icons of Spanish-American architecture. Route 101 follows much of the the old trail's route. The name El Camino Real also designates the 700 mi (1,100 km) New Mexican trail that was pioneered by Juan de Oñate in 1598 and formed the lifeline of Spain's New Mexican colony.
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Camino Real is a 1953 play by Tennessee Williams. In the introduction to the Penguin edition of the play, Williams directs the reader to use the Anglicized pronunciation "Cá-mino Réal.
The setting is the main plaza of a poor town somewhere in the Spanish-speaking world. The town is surrounded by desert, and transportation to the outside world is sporadic.
There is a large cast (40) including many famous literary characters borrowed by Williams that appear in dream sequences. The cast of characters includes Esmeralda (see The Hunchback of Notre Dame), Don Quixote and his partner Sancho, Marguerite "Camille" Gautier (see The Lady of the Camellias), Casanova, Lord Byron, among others. A young American visitor, Kilroy, fulfills some of the functions of a narrator, as does Gutman, (named after Sydney Greenstreet's character from the Maltese Falcon, but bearing more resemblance to, Signor Ferrari, his character in Casablanca) manager of the hotel Siete Mares, whose terrace occupies part of the stage. The play goes through a series of confusing and almost logic-defying events, including the revival of the gypsy's daughter's virginity and then the loss of it again.
A main theme that it deals with is coming to terms with the thought of growing older and possibly becoming irrelevant. It was first produced on Broadway in 1953 with Eli Wallach in the role of Kilroy; Elia Kazan was the director and Anna Sokolow was assistant to the director. For his role as The Baron, David J. Stewart won the Clarence Derwent Award for most-promising male performer from the Actors' Equity Foundation. The play enjoyed a revival at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center in 1970, directed by Jules Irving, with roles played by Al Pacino and Jessica Tandy and Clifford David (Lord Byron). More recently, it has been revived by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1996, in a production at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, which was directed by Steven Pimlott, and starred Leslie Phillips as Gutman, Peter Egan as Casanova and Susannah York as Camille.
In a recent interview on C-SPAN Gore Vidal compared the Williams' play "In Masks Outrageous and Austere" to Camino Real.[1]
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