Word: oded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That is the poignant internal music of Camino Real, the sound of one heart breaking. Unfortunately, the play is too diffuse and episodic to record that sound resonantly. Williams oscillated between writing an ode to the romantic imagination and a bitter philippic against life's raw deal. El Camino Real was once the royal highway from Santa Fe to Chihuahua, Mexico. In the play it becomes a literal dead end, a pothole of a tropical police state where the street cleaners lie in wait to cart away the appointed victims. These include some of the great romantics of history...
...Reivers is a raucous, good-natured ode to the end of innocence -a kind of motorized Huckleberry Finn. William Faulkner's original novel spun a mellow tale about an eleven-year-old lad named Lucius McCaslin and his wild-eyed adventures on a trip to Memphis in 1905. Screenwriters Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr., having done previous Faulkner adaptations in The Long Hot Summer and The Sound and the Fury, by this time know the Yoknapatawpha territory more than passing well. Their sharp and reverent screenplay, featuring a felicitous narration by Burgess Meredith, helps make The Reivers...