The Night of the Iguana
Night of the Iguana, The
Author: Tennessee Williams
First Performance: 1959, Spoleto, Italy; 1961, New York
Published: 1962
Genre: Drama in 3 acts
Setting: Seaside hotel in Mexico, 1940
Cast: 8m, 6f
T. Lawrence Shannon is a 35-year-old former Episcopalian minister, defrocked for blasphemy and sexual misdemeanours, who now works as a tour guide. He arrives with a busload of Baptist women schoolteachers at a rundown hotel overlooking a beach, which is run by a sexy widow, Maxine Faulk. The ladies are displeased with Shannon for showing them the seamier side of Mexican life and for seducing Charlotte, one of the girls in the party. At the hotel there is a German family, overjoyed at Hitler's conquests in Europe, and a curious couple, a 97-year-old poet Jonathan (Nonno) Coffin and his spinster...
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