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‘Ten Blocks’ offers look at Tennessee Williams’s ‘plastic theater’

From Beau Jest, an earlier version of Tennessee Williams’s ‘Camino Real’

By Joel Brown

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  May 04, 2012

Tennessee Williams’s “Ten Blocks on the Camino Real,” opening Thursday at Charlestown Working Theater, is a lyrical fantasy about characters in a Latin American town, including the American boxer Kilroy, the hotel owner Gutman, and the sexy Esmerelda. If that sounds familiar, it’s probably because “Ten Blocks” is an earlier, shorter version of “Camino Real,” the Williams play that flopped on Broadway in 1953.

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