The Night of the Iguana | A Little Night Music

While Brustein says that Williams's play offers some enjoyment, he ultimately finds Night of the Iguana to be ‘‘too aimless, leisurely, and formless to satisfy’’ a discerning theatregoer.

In The Night of the Iguana, Tennessee Williams has composed a little nocturnal mood music for muted strings, beautifully performed by some superb instrumentalists, but much too aimless, leisurely, and formless to satisfy the attentive ear. I should add that I prefer these Lydian measures to the unmelodious banalities of his Period of Adjustment or the strident masochistic dissonances of Sweet Bird of Youth; for his new materials are handled with relative sincerity, the dialogue has a wistful, graceful, humorous warmth, the characters are almost recognizable as human...

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