On
Feb. 23-25, EPCC's Los Teatristas Theatre Ensemble performed the dramatic
play by Tennessee Williams called Camino Real. Under the infamous
direction of Hector Serrano, the cast and crew brought this drama
to life on the Transmountain stage.
The play was in Williams' perspective of a person's life as they traveled
the Camino Real. Each block represented different stages of life,
with struggles introduce brilliantly by its characters. 
It starts off comical, rather peaceful, and even impersonal. Characters
introduce themselves in the restaurant of the Camino Real. There are
always new vacancies needing to be filled by the stranded guests waiting
desperately for their departures.
EPCC's
Los Teatristas Theatre Ensemble put on Tennessee William’s dramatic
play “Camino Real.”
Photo by Jarred Cynor
Tragically,
they introduce lovers gone stale because they've grown comfortable
with each other. A once beautiful madrecita, played by Martha Herrera
searches through out the play in seek of her once known fame.
By her side, holding her back and loving her just the same is a magnificent
gigolo, played by Adam Dominguez.
Through the entire play, Dominguez portrays Jacques, a dark character
always drinking shots on the hotel's tab and awaiting his reimbursement
check. They refer to him as "an Old Hawk".
Then there is a great festival where Kilroy (Jason McGinnis), an American
stranger and once winner of the golden gloves he so proudly wore around
his neck becomes "the chosen one".
In an ironic festival of the full moon, the Gypsy (Monette Rochelle
Alvarez), introduces her daughter, the beautiful, Esmerelda (Virginia
Green).
Under light of the full moon festival, Esmerelda's virginity is to
be restored, and she joined with her chosen one. In a sick twist of
fate, her "champion", Kilroy has "a heart as big as
a baby's head," and leaves her only to die at the feet of Prudence,
who discovers that being comfortable with someone, may just be the
love she cannot get from strangers.
Camino Real was a soul-seeking drama filled with explosive acting,
brilliant scenes, and amazing settings and well worth the money to
see it. The actors' costumes fit the story perfectly, especially the
gypsy and boxer. The heavily voiced introductions at each block boomed
from Filiberto Carrasco, almost comically introducing each stage as
the story, and their lives, progressed.
Serrano has produced another play well worth seeing, vibrant in emotion,
and well performed by the actors.
