Suggestions

1.       What is the insightful moment of the play?

2.       All the people have been on the Camino Real a long time.  Who are the strangers?

3.       What is the commonality among the residents of Camino Real?

4.       Exit – one or two actors bring ladder DS.  The escape is DS. Then return ladder upstage.  At end with Quixote and Kilroy, bring lights DS with ladder.  This can be choreographed.

5.       Keep wheelbarrow

6.       Everything in hotel is black, red and gray.  Everything else is colorful but faded.

7.       Gutman’s chair is a swivel office chair.  At the beginning his back is to the audience and he turns around.

8.       Blend the moments of terror, humor and the poignancy.

9.       Actors are unnatural until the poignancy.  They are unrealistic until the “gotcha” moments – They carry all baggage and the baggage follows them.  Actors show the shoes they have worn out because they are attached to them.

10.   Shoes instead of gears.

11.   Fugitivo passengers haul all their stuff and people help them.

12.   Choreographed dance – smooth criminal – men hold jackets out, women raise skirts, people passing drugs, drinking.

13.   Cobwebs, pigeons on siete mares sign, one letter hanging off – bird poop