CMU School of Drama


Friday, September 23, 2011

Impassioned 'Camino' tells painful immigration stories

Post Gazette: In theater, "Camino" mainly recalls a play by Tennessee Williams, ironically titled "Camino Real" (royal road), in reference to the more or less royal roads of Hispanic history in California, Mexico and further south. This ambitious new play by Anya Martin of the Hiawatha Project doubtless makes the same ironic reference. But her "Camino" refers more specifically to a series of interwoven roadways or journeys and is also, in a poignant metaphor, the name given by a prisoner to a small bird, now caged, now free.

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